The act of returning to older works has become an important element of Friðfinnsson's practice in recent years. It is not a sentimental act, though one may suppose so. Instead, revisiting old ideas entails an element of circularity and impermanence which is congruent to his practice as a whole.

In the exhibition Friðfinnsson returns to his mythical House Project - a project based of the story of an old eccentric Icelander who intended to built a house inside out. In 1974 Friðfinnsson built the house based on the story in a remote area of the Icelandic volcanic tundra. Inversed, the wallpaper, curtains and framed pictures hanging on the outside, the house thereby contained the whole world, except itself. Since 1974 Friðfinnsson has returned to the work and developed new chapters in the life of the house thereby maintaining the mythology around it and adding new layers.

Hreinn Friðfinnsson (b. 1943 in Iceland) has lived in Amsterdam since the early 1970's. He was a co-founder of the of the Icelandic avant-garde artists’ collective SÚM and has exhibited widely internationally. Solo shows include House at Hafnarborg – Hafnafjordur Center of Culture and Fine Art (2012) and retrospectives at Malmö Konsthall, Art Museum Reykjavik (2008) and the Serpentine Gallery (2007) the National Gallery of Iceland (1993), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (1992). Other significant participations include The Imminence of Poetics at the São Paulo Biennale and Ends of the Earth – Land Art to 1974 at MOCA Los Angeles and Haus der Kunst, Munich. He represented Iceland at the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993.