Made in collaboration with Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, Elín Hansdóttir and Sara Riel

Hamburger Bahnhof – National gallery. Berlin 2004

Brjálrl

The work was like a world to enter. The yellow painted floor was tilted and walls were askew. It was a corridor. The windows were frosted. There was a yellow tree with a ladder up to it and if you climbed up you would see stars falling from a small monitor inside a hole in the tree. In the middle space was a fake door to the cellar where a murky persona reminding of a devil and a dog appeared every now and then whispering a haunting tune and throwing a tennis ball in the air (all being faked with video projection and sound). The walls in this middle space were covered with three large video projections. These images were followed up with a strong set of sounds and music that underlined the different atmospheres created. Sometimes geometric forms moved across the screens and then the next second a person was lying in a bed with its face covered with hair and then an animated heart flying in to the hair and then a red form moving on the wall to the right and two mean hearts nagging on the wall to the left. Next we cut to a girl dancing in a strange mystical landscape with a melancholic song playing in the background. After that everything turns black in the space and we hear monsters screaming and running around in the corridors with the tilted floors. In this way impressions of different styles all put together to make a new entity. The video was connected with the space, the space to the sound, and the sound with the activity of climbing into the tree and the windows to the fake door to the cellar. Perhaps it was like a stage without life actors. Or the actors were the visitors that had to climb the ladder, walk the corridor, stand around to watch the videos in the space etc.