30.08.2024 – 12.01.2025
In his impressive time-based media works, Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðjónsson repeatedly deals with mankind’s technological achievements, which also serve as tools or media in his art. Guðjónsson shows these objects from perspectives that make their presence appear intensely intimate and enigmatic at the same time. In microscopic close-ups, he observes movements and forms that result from the contact that objects make with their environment. The examination of natural elements and the parameters of time, space and perception are also recurring themes in his work. Guðjónsson’s type of investigation always takes place on an acoustic as well as a visual level. He utilises the potential of the filmic medium to reproduce an interplay of image and sound in order to create a maximum symbiosis of both sensory impressions. Complex soundscapes and rhythmic images involve the viewer in a synaesthetic experience that expands their own field of perception and generates a new kind of sensation. In “Scopes of Inner Transit”, the artist’s first monographic exhibition in Austria, “Perpetual Motion” will be shown together with three other recent works by Guðjónsson.
Sigurður Guðjónsson – Scopes of Inner Transit
30.08.2024 – 12.01.2025
Francisco Carolinum Linz
Museumsstraße 14
4020 Linz
www.ooekultur.at
