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Email PageL’egillegillegil
April 5, 2007- May 5, 2007
Egill Sæbjörnsson
Cueto Project
551 W 21st StCueto Project is pleased to present ‘L’egillegillegil ‘, Egill Sæbjörnsson's first solo exhibition in New York. The title plays on the concept of multiple identities, both individual and social. The work of the artist and musician Egill Saebjörnsson comprises videos, installations and performances in which different components like daily objects, sculptural elements, sound, music and projected videos reconstruct and reflect on the way we usually compose our image of the world and experience the relation to this image.
In his installations several layers stemming from different orders of representation are placed, or take place, over each other. Accumulating in, sometimes almost everyday, but always wondrous small events, these composed installations seduce the spectator to take on two roles at once, as both a willing spectator of a virtual event and a knowing witness of the construction of its image.
In Saebjörnsson’s work, all the different elements are detourned to destroy their authority, recognizing that the archive of a specific cultural history can only be reassembled as an unstable set of fragments.
Curated by London based critic and curator Gyonata Bonvicini, the project is made up of three large Video installations, a series of drawings and photographs and two sculptural works.
Egill Sæbjörnsson (born 1973) works and lives in Reykjavík and Berlin. Recent shows and performances include Falkecharlott at Ellen de Bruijn Project, Amsterdam, DeApple Amsterdam, Westlondonprojects London, Museum of Modern Art Sydney, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Isabella Bortolozzi and Neugerriemschneider Berlin and forthcoming is a performance at Kölnischer Kunstverein Cologne, and a commissioned work at SMoCA Arizona. Forthcoming is also his 3rd album made in collaboration with producer Valgeir Sigurdsson (producer of the latest Bonnie Prince Billy and Coco Rosie albums and collaborator of Björk for her last 5 albums) to be released on Bedroom Community later this year. Egill´s career as a musician is an example of his general twist on identity within artistic practice.
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