Rules of the Game is a new exhibition of paintings by Thordis Adalsteinsdottir. Adalsteinsdottir's paintings begin with familiar scenes—a room, a figure resting, animals moving through domestic space—before the logic quietly shifts. Scale slips, hierarchy collapses, and narrative unfolds to a private rhythm. Humans and animals share the scene on equal terms, echoing the strange moral landscape of fables. Several new works draw loosely from the Old Testament, approaching scripture as stories repeatedly used to justify human behavior. What begins as ordinary slowly reveals a world where the structures meant to organize meaning feel unexpectedly fragile.
