About me
Telma Har is an Icelandic artist born in Reykjavík in 1985. She lives and works in the capital area. She studied Photography in the School of Photography in Iceland.
For Telma Har, identity is not a fixed category but a dynamic field of inquiry. Her artistic practice is rooted in research, which becomes both a method and a conceptual framework for reclaiming agency over the ways the self is constructed and represented. Rather than treating identity as something given, Telma approaches it as a layered, unstable, and negotiable phenomenon, one that must be continuously unearthed, questioned, and reassembled.
An interview with me
Each photograph or artwork she creates functions as a site of visual excavation. In this process, personal narrative, cultural memory, and psychological states intersect, revealing identity not as a singular truth but as a palimpsest of experiences, influences, and internal landscapes. Her images become fragments of a larger archaeology of the self, exposing what is often hidden beneath the surface.
By working with mixed media, Telma deliberately moves beyond the two-dimensionality of the photographic frame. This material openness allows her to invoke other registers of perception — tactility, rupture, transformation — which become metaphors for the porousness of identity itself. The experience of viewing her work is therefore not purely optical but sensorial, encouraging the viewer to feel the texture of memory and the instability of the categories by which we define ourselves.
Her practice is a reminder that identity is never complete but always in process: mutable, composite, and in dialogue with the surrounding world. In this way, Telma’s work can be read as both personal and political, a resistance to static representations, and a call to acknowledge the complexity of what it means to be a self in constant becoming.