- City
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- Tags
- Guest artist
- Year
- 2019
Sigurður Guðjónsson is a visual artist working with moving imagery and installations, his works carry carefully constructed synchronized soundscapes and provide organic synergy between sound, vision, and space
His works often investigate man-made construction, machinery, and the infrastructure of technical relics, in conjunction with natural elements, set within the form of complex loops and rhythmic schemes. His all-immersive multi-faceted compositions allow for the viewer to be engaged in a synaesthetic experience, that seems to extend one’s perceptual experience beyond new measures.
Guðjónsson has often collaborated with musical composers, resulting in intricate work, allowing the visual compositions to merge enchantingly with the musical ones in a single rhythmic and tonal whole. He represented Iceland at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. The artist was awarded the 2018 Icelandic Art Prize as Visual Artist of the Year for his 2017 exhibition Inlight, which featured video installations set within the defunct St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, and commissioned by Listasafn ASÍ.
In 2019, Guðjónsson visited CERN as a guest artist.
