The images are a documentation of a further development of his House Project from 1974, an installation inspired by the tale of an eccentric Icelander who built a house inside out.
Fridfinnssons’s work can take almost any form: crystal turning to stars; frottage that evokes the artist’s own studio; a silvery pencil rubbing of Cezanne's Mont St Victoire. In Whatever Time We Choose (1999), for example, the artist creates an installation made out of an undefined number of crystals that recalls an imaginary constellation of stars. Alongside this work Fridfinnsson presents From Mont Sainte-Victoire (1998), a series of fifteen frottage works, lovingly tracing the very ground of Cezanne's muse as if he were making a brass rubbing. The same kind of technique has been deployed by the artist in reproducing the visual patterns composing his studio’s floor. A pile of these drawing is then gently agitated by two small fans thus allowing the artist to give the illusion of a minimal action and its time. In both works the historically charged technique of the frottage connects the everyday and the magical through the poetic and ironic presence of the artist. The diversity of media, which Fridfinnsson utilizes consistently reflects the artist's complex visual language, each work imbued with simultaneous instances of humour and wonder.

Born in 1943 in Baer Dölum, Iceland, Hreinn Fridfinnsson has been living in Amsterdam since 1971. He has had solo exhibitions at: Malmö Konsthall  (2008); Reykjavik Art Museum and Serpentine Gallery, London (both 2007);  Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, and Kyoto  Art Center (both 2002). In 1993 he exhibited at the National Gallery of  Iceland, Reykjavik (1993) and represented Iceland at the 45th Venice Biennale. His work has also been featured in group shows including  Material Time/ Work Time/ Life Time, Reykjavik Arts Festival (2005),  Eblouissement, Jeau de Paume, Paris (2004), Norden, Kunsthalle Wien, the  Carnegie Art Award, (both 2000), Sleeping Beauty–Art Now, Scandinavia  Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1983). In 2000, the artist was the recipient of the prestigious Ars Fennica prize. Hreinn  Fridfinnsson has been exhibiting with Galerie Nordenhake since 1989.