Sigur Rós concerts are memorable thanks in part to the band’s frontman and main vocalist Jónsi, whose voice is full of sorrow and hope all at once with an incredible range of high notes that sound like the violins that play behind him. Evoking bliss, childhood memories and the bracing Icelandic wind, his voice is reminiscent of the beginning segment of the film “Sans Soleil” by Chris Marker (1983), in which a narrator describes an image of three Icelandic children playing outside as her exact image of happiness. Yet living in Iceland also means enduring harsh winters full of darkness, where the sun is up for just four hours a day.

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The exhibition “Jónsi: Flóð” (Flood), now on view at the Reykjavík Art Museum........

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