A continuation of the artist’s interest in the act of covering up the white canvas as painting in its most basic form, the work Permanent Green Light exists in relation to the Fluorescent Pink and Stainless Steel series. It, like those, takes the color itself as the “found” element and as the title of the work - a title that in this case also carries a message of anything goes. In addition the green has connotations of “green screen” an empty space that can be filled with whatever image is desired.

Gardar Eide Einarsson works with found and appropriated source materials in order to think about the images that surround us and the work they do to interpellate us. 

Ideas around personal liberty, belonging, inclusion/ exclusion and propaganda are explored with a view to what role culture plays in ideological systems and how artists and art institutions both are implicated in the dominant structures while at the same time perhaps offering a way around and outside them. How do we as individuals navigate the course between our own personal freedom and our inscription in the symbolic structure of the societies we exist within?

He addresses this subject matter through diverse media such as installations, paintings, sculptures etc. in a deadpan and often humorous way and with an awareness of the institutional context of contemporary art.