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Sigurdur Gudjónsson, The Un-homely
By Katharina Klara Jung
Mist. Like white smoke it hovers over a pallid, bleak scene - a stone, rubble, something's moving; moaning music like spherical tones from a long gone memory that suddenly strikes the heartbeat only to just as suddenly drown back into the unseizable's dusk. Sigurdur Gudjónsson's films breathe an oppressive silence, sough despair, pant fear. The tangled fragments of a dreamlike tale about desolation, self-inflicted failure, longing and denial, have convened to form a mystical requiem of shades...
Over and over, refusing a linear narrative, he blends together palpable elements and grotesque images in a symphony of unsettled emotions, binds them into unity with crackling, rustling sounds and the sonorous tune of a distant trumpet ("Host", 2004).
In his latest work, "Death bed" (2005/06), the run-down sceleton of an old house stands in the middle of a bewildering cluster of morbid and grotesque conditions and the attempt of a hooded protagonist to intrude the ruin in the endless snowcovered wasteland. In the eerie atmosphere, he meets - or does he? - figures, faceless people who in what might or might not seem scenes of the past dress their grey, jejune hair in pin curlers and wash their decaying limbs in red water to the sound of a muted piano's play.
Cinematic and musical elements are of equal importance in Sigurdur Gudjónsson's atmospheric works, to him, sound, vision and cut are equitable compositorial means on his search for a not so much intellectual but physically and emotionally perceptible abyss that Freud called the "Un-homely". His works' mystic, quasi-spiritual mood reflects psychological states on a universal level that, elder than speech itself, uncaptured in words and rationally unfathomable, introduces the mind to its borderline with emotion.
Katharina Klara Jung, March 2006
CURRICULUM VITAE
| 2000-2003 |
Iceland Academy of the Arts, BA.
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| 2000-2003 |
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien,
Austria
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| 1998-1999 |
Billedskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Solo Exhibitions
| 2006 |
Dark places, Motorenhalle, Dresden,
Germany
Bleak - Trostlos, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
Deathbed, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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| 2004 |
Host, Gallery Kling & Bang, Reykjavik,
Iceland
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| 2002 |
Darkness, Gallery Priestor, Bratislava (mit
Magnus Arnason), Slovakia
Cat, Gallery Kukur, Iceland
Wonderboy, Gallery Nema Hvad, Iceland
Saebjörnsson and Sara Riel, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (cat)
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Group Exhibitions
| 2007 |
100 Tage 100 Videos, GL Strand, Copenhagen,
Denmark
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| 2006 |
Vienna Biennale, Vienna, Austria
100 Tage 100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
SEQUENCES real time festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
Temporary Cities, National Centre for Contemporary arts NCCA, Moscow, Russia
The Un-Homely, Galerie Adler, New York City, USA
Contemporary Video Art from Iceland, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin,
Germany
Iceland Show, BUS Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
the end, my friend, Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Islandia, Kültur Büro Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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| 2005 |
Host, Berlin Liste, Klink&Bank invasion,
Germany
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| 2004 |
Etoiles Polares, Vooruit, Ghent,
Belgium
Nyskopun - Ny - Skopun,exhibition in a collaboration with Ice Tec,
Reykjavík, Iceland
Berlin North (in collaboration with Elin Hansdottir, Ásdis Sif
Gunnarsdottir, Egil
Saebjörnsson and Sara Riel), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (cat)
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| 2003 |
Behind the eyes, Bergen Kunsthalle, Norway
Stye, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Grasrót, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Uppnam, Einar Jonsson Sculpture Garden, Iceland
Stye, Gallery 10, Húsavik, Iceland
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| 2002 |
IXI Soundperformance, Museums Quartier 21,
Vienna, Austria
Red, Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden
Converter Projekt Part 2, The Living Art Museum, Iceland
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| 2001 |
LOD, sound Performance in Buryzone,
Bratislava, Slovakia
Converter Projekt Part 1, Semper Depot, Vienna, Austria
Polyfonia, Living Art Museum, Iceland
Daddy goes all the way, Safnahusid, Husavik, Iceland
Eagle Beagle, Living Art Museum, Iceland (in collaboration with Egill Saebjornsson)
Honk, Living Art Museum, Iceland
Best Hlemmur in the World, The electro company sound performance
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| 2000 |
Dćlan gengur, Olis, Iceland
Polyfonia, Living Art Museum, Iceland
Electro Company, The Yellow House, Iceland (sound performance)
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Collections
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Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany
Private collections.
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Selected video works
| 2006 |
Bleak, 25min, hdv/dvd
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| 2006 |
Sárabeđ/Deathbed, 25 min, hdv/dvd
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| 2004 |
Host, length 42 min, dvcam/dvd
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| 2004 |
Flesh, length 15 min, dv cam/dvd
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| 2003 |
Stye, length 37 min dv cam/dvd
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| 2002 |
Darkness, length 16 min, dv cam/dvd
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| 2001 |
Leatherstreet, length 35 min, dv cam/dvd
and audio cd
In collaboration with Gabriela Friđriksdóttir: 2005 West / Tetrologi, length 9min
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Music
| 2002 |
Killed a man with his ass
The Beautiful Carrot
Slím, in collaboration with Magnus Arnason
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| 2001 |
Leatherstreet, in collaboration with Arnar
Gudjonsson
Lođ, in collaboration with Magnus Arnason
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| 1993 |
Abduction, Cranium
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Bibliography
| 2006 |
Sigurdur Gudjonsson: Dark Places, LIST
Icelandic Art News no. 9, by Dr. Christian Schön
Reykjavik, Art Review, by November Paynter, June 2006, p. 54
Licht, Ton, Schnitt, Zeichnung, Illusion, Ritual - durchbuchstabiert, Main Echo,
by Gundel-Maria Busse, May 3rd, 2006
Island in Videos und Fotos, Frankfurter Neue Presse, by Gernot Gottwals, May 2nd, 2006,
p. 27
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| 2004 |
Berlin North, catalog Hamburger Bahnhof
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