Transit is an installation of photographs and a video projection made in the exhibition space Suðsuðvestur in the small town of Keflavík in southwest Iceland in January 2009. The town is situated just by the international airport and former US Navy Base. As such it is in many ways exemplary of the political situation in Iceland when the country has slipped into a crisis, a monetary crisis but also a crisis of self image of the population, following the collapse of the countries major banks in October 2009. The foci of the work is on Keflavík and its former military base, the relationship between them, but also on the airport which is in many ways emblematic of the decline in perceived possibilities of freedom and mobility for the general population.


