Hreinn Fridfinnsson’s art is deeply rooted in a sense of curiosity and delight. It depends on his acute attention to the stories and objects that shape a history or habit, and the ways these stories and objects inform each other and act on us. Though his art is generally categorized as “conceptual,” Fridfinnsson’s approach differs fundamentally from much of the art we associate with that label; it begins not in critique, but in wonder, and not from a desire to privilege idea over the object, per se. Fridfinnsson frames his concepts as questions and puts precisely tended objects and incidents in dialogue with ideas. His strategies borrow as much from storytelling and theater as from the photo-documentation and fondness for humble materials and overlooked detail that Conceptual Art took as given.