USA
http://www.marisvanvlack.com
Residency period: May 2026
Maris is an interdisciplinary artist from Massachusetts, USA who combines digital and traditional weaving practices with painting to build tapestries that explore memory and history. She works with textiles and paint together, using thread as a drawing material that can be used to create woven images. She has exhibited in the USA and Europe, including shows at the U. S. Capitol Building (Washington, DC), NADA New York (New York, NY), the RISD Museum (Providence, RI), the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), the Icelandic Textile Center (Blönduós, Iceland), and Superhouse (New York, NY).
Rebecca Krasnik has joined us here at SÍM Residency in May 2026 as part of the Nordic Analog Network Darkroom Exchange Program.
As part of the program, Rebecca will be hosting a Darkroom Workshop at Ljósmyndaskólinn on Saturday 23rd
We are pleased to welcome artist and photographer Rebecca Krasnik to our residency program. Working across analogue photography, historic printmaking techniques, and computer-generated imagery, Krasnik’s practice explores the evolving relationship between physical and digital image-making.
Her work moves fluidly between artist books, sculptural installations, and augmented reality (AR), creating encounters that contrast bodily experience with digital representations of time and space. Through these layered approaches, Krasnik investigates how emerging technologies continue to shape the ways we create, perceive, and interact with images today.
During her residency, Krasnik is continuing her experimental research into photographic processes that bridge digital and analogue methods, bringing tactile, material practices into dialogue with screen-based imagery.
The residency is supported by the Nordic Analog Network in collaboration with Ljósmyndaskólinn.
Darkroom Workshop: Digital Contact Prints
As part of her stay, Rebecca Krasnik will lead a hands-on workshop introducing participants to digital contact printing through experimental darkroom processes.
Using light emitted from screens, participants will transform digital images into analogue photographic prints. The workshop explores how water, physicality, and manual handling can be reintroduced into the creation of otherwise purely digital images.
Krasnik will present examples from her own experimental practice, provide an introduction to the technique, and guide participants through their own darkroom experiments.
In Between Spaces brings together a group of artists who participated in the international SÍM Residency whose practices explore materiality, environment, temporality, and human connection through diverse interdisciplinary approaches. The exhibition unfolds through installations, sculpture, photography, moving image, and spatial interventions that examine states of transition, vulnerability, isolation, and interconnection.
Participating Artists:
Nastja Säde Rönkkö she/her - FI
Gertrud Hallum she/her - DK
Davide Ronco he/him - IT
Thomas Udomrat Hostrup he/him - DK
Maria Nicole Michalla - she/her ARG/GER
Maris van Vlack - she/her USA
Tanja Valta she/her - FI
Colette Aliman she/her - NL
Rachelle Hamilton she/her - CA
Rebecca Krasnik she/her - DK
Janise Yntema she/they - BE
Jorė Janavičiūtė she/her - LT
Sera Chen she/her - TW
