The sculpture The Little MareSausage or Litla Hafpulsan, was unveiled in the downtown lake Tjörnin on Friday. The sculpture, which looks like a light pink hot dog with a fishtail, perched on top of a yellow ball, has raised eyebrows and curiosity. From some angles the sculpture bears a certain resemblance to a part of the male anatomy.
The MareSausage is the creation of Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir, an Icelandic visual artist born 1983, and is her contribution to the Music and Art Festival Cycle as well as the 100 years anniversary of Iceland's sovereignty. The sculpture echoes the famous sculpture Little Maremaid in Copenhagen, as well as a sculpture by the same name by the Icelandic sculpture Nína Sæmundsen which is located in the SW corner of Tjörnin.
Steinunn has previously used the hot-dog theme in her artwork when commenting on the nation state and Iceland. The hot dog is, of course, the unofficial national food of Iceland, and a logical representative of Icelandic culture. In colloquial Icelandic describing something as a pulsa (hot-dog) or saying it is pulsulegt (hot-dog-ish, or like a hot-dog) means it is cheap, second-rate or lame.
The sculpture The Little MareSausage or Litla Hafpulsan, was unveiled in the downtown lake Tjörnin on Friday. The sculpture, which looks like a light pink hot dog with a fishtail, perched on top of a yellow ball, has raised eyebrows and curiosity. From some angles the sculpture bears a certain resemblance to a part of the male anatomy.
The MareSausage is the creation of Steinunn Gunnlaugsdóttir, an Icelandic visual artist born 1983, and is her contribution to the Music and Art Festival Cycle as well as the 100 years anniversary of Iceland's sovereignty. The sculpture echoes the famous sculpture Little Maremaid in Copenhagen, as well as a sculpture by the same name by the Icelandic sculpture Nína Sæmundsen which is located in the SW corner of Tjörnin.
Steinunn has previously used the hot-dog theme in her artwork when commenting on the nation state and Iceland. The hot dog is, of course, the unofficial national food of Iceland, and a logical representative of Icelandic culture. In colloquial Icelandic describing something as a pulsa (hot-dog) or saying it is pulsulegt (hot-dog-ish, or like a hot-dog) means it is cheap, second-rate or lame.
