In Brooklyn, New York, one can find all sorts of interesting galleries and the art market is flourishing. In an apartment on Driggs Avenue, a small project space is home to the idea of two Icelandic siblings, and is called Dandruff Space and Shroud. Oddný is a philosopher and writer and Uggi is an archaeologist and together they have launched a program of installations and are planning on issuing a box-set of literature in relations with the installations. The project began in spring 2005 and the idea is born from the ideology of the small publishing company the siblings run, Apaflasa.

They wanted to find a forum to bring together different kinds of art, theory and literature, all in one place, in one box. They had issued a box-set of literature before but wanted to expand the idea to a project space. The idea came to be realised when both were living in New York and in Oddný's apartment they found the perfect little protrusion in the apartment and the space resembled in size an old ruin of a remote refuge in Iceland. So they wanted to use the archaeological idea and invite artist to step into this ruin and examine layers of time and layers of earth.

The space is called Dandruff Space but the Shroud attached is the name of the project and so the space carries the project's name for the duration of the project. The Shroud name came from Uggi's obsession with the Turin Shroud, but they have extended the theme to mean all kind of shroud, layers, veils, masks, dandruff, fog, snow etc.

Oddný and Uggi chose eight artist to work with, who incidentally are all women: Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Hulda Stefánsdóttir, Una Dóra Copley, Katrín Sigurðardóttir, Margrét H. Blöndal, Roni Horn and Þórdís Aðalsteinsdóttir. The choice was partly a personal one but the idea and the project guided the choice. Guðrún is the mother of the two editors and so it was obvious for them to ask her to be the one to inaugurate the space with her installation. As a child she lived in New York and they shared with her the interest in publishing and printing. The wanted to choose artists who they knew and also who represented well the objective of the project, to build a bridge between the Icelandic art scene and the New York art scene. So the artists are all somehow connected with both places. Some Icelandic others American, but all have lived or worked in both countries.

Uggi and Oddný work closely with the artists and they want the installations in the space to be a communal work. They visit the artists' studios and spend time with them to get to know their way of thinking. The project is built around seven installations or events that take place over a one year period. The first installation took place in springtime 2005 and the last one is expected to take place in spring or summer 2006. Synchronously, Oddný and Uggi are working on a set of books that will be issued in a box, in autumn 2006. This is a work in progress and they write the literature in collaboration with the artists. With the box-set they want to challenge the boundaries of literature, art, theory and installations. They encourage the artists to write texts as well as work on their installations. So the books will be a separate artwork, where the role of the author/artist is blurred.

This is a project in process so the eventual outcome is still to be seen. From the installations that have taken place, one can observe a very strong presence of Iceland as a subject. Some artists are working with nature, while others are working with memories of Iceland, travels, stories and the fact that they are away from Iceland, sort of Off-Iceland. It is not surprising to find this connection in a project that has as one of the objectives to strengthen the tie between the two cultures, Iceland and the U.S. Another purpose of the project is to encourage artist to communicate and also to encourage the communication between different fields of study, like visual art, literature, archaeology and philosophy.