Arna Beth
Contact & Links
arnabeths@gmail.com
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Arna Beth (b. 1997) is an Icelandic / American
multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in London. Working with the assemblage of digital media, speculative futures, and cultural critique of the postmodern. Her practice spans 3D fabrication such as sculpture and animation, performance, sound, and recombinant material processes.
Through frameworks of critical theory kin to xenofeminism, dromology and necropolitics, Arna constructs immersive, non-linear narratives, attempting to destabilize a dromocratic present.
Self-composed sound,
fabrication, and embodied performance mark an evolution toward more immersive, bodydriven work. Collaborations with curators and technologists continue to refine her spatial and political praxis, weaponizing aesthetics against the systems they mirror.
She has performed and exhibited at:
Boundary Condition at St. Garlickhythe Church (LDN) 2025.
Manifest: IO at Goldsmiths (LDN) 2025.
Club Are (LDN) 2023, 2025.
Metamorphika (LDN) 2024.
SÍM Residency + UKAI Projects at Korpúlfsstaðir (ICE) 2024
Lewisham Art House (LDN) 2023
Iklectik Art Lab (LDN) 2023
Hafnarborg – the Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture and Fine Art (ICE) 2023.
X3 Amsterdam (NL) 2022.
Akademie der Künste in Berlin (DE) 2022
Festival of Lights (ICE) 2020
Decoratelier in Brussels (BE) 2019
Lunga Festival (ICE) 2019
Sónar Reykjavík (ICE) 2018
TEXTS
Caterina Barbieri has been a huge influence on my work through sound. She carefully crafts worlds and atmospheres through arpeggiated synths, oscillating between machine-like coldness to organic warmth in the rythm. Constructing pulsating soundscapes that fit well in an algorithmic age. She has influenced my own music as well as pushing atmosphere into my more visual works.
Works by artist https://www.instagram.com/runurunulnnnn/
Concept art from the game Metal Gear Solid has been a constant influence throughout my artistic career, originally wanting to become a concept artists for films and video games.
The Metal Gear Solid series, created by Hideo Kojima, is known for its dense philosophical themes, political commentary, and meta-narrative complexity.
Sophia Gatzkan, Without a blood bond, the arch would fall, 2025.
Sophia Katzkans connect to Donna Haraway is extremely apparent in her sculptural work. A mix of decaying skin textures, fit with metal rods and animal horns. It transcends the human/species/machine narrative, suggesting dystopian or posthuman futures where technology blurs bodily boundaries.