once again I fall
size: 8" x 8"
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scope: scale model
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materials: acrylic and permanent marker
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year: 2014
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concept: Once Again I Fall is a concept for an architectural space created in response to The Visitors, an exhibition held at the ICA Boston.
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Exploring the intersection between graphics and architecture, the lines and strokes that create the letterforms of the first line of the text are systematically manipulated and overlapped, bending and folding to denote space.
SYSTEM GENERATION
graphic system
excerpt from ICA Boston website:
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Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Feb 13 – Jul 28, 2019
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Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser and Fotene Demoulas Galleries
#RagnarKjartansson #thevisitors
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A sentimental portrayal of friendship, love, and loss and one of the best-loved works in the ICA’s permanent collection, Ragnar Kjartansson’s (b. 1976, Reykjavik, Iceland) masterwork The Visitors (2012) is a monumental nine-channel sound and moving-image installation of a performance staged at Rokeby Farm, a historic 43-room estate in upstate New York. Each of the individual audio/video channels features musicians—including Kristín Anna and Gyða Valtýsdóttir, founding sisters of the Icelandic band Mùm; Kjartan Sveinsson, former member of Sigur Rós; and Davíð Þór Jónsson, Kjartansson’s longtime collaborator and co-composer of the musical arrangement—playing instruments either alone or in groups, separately but simultaneously, occupying different rooms of the romantically dilapidated estate. The lyrics are taken from the poem “Feminine Ways,” written by Kjartansson’s former wife and fellow artist Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir. The title alludes to the 1981 album of the same name from Swedish pop band ABBA, the group’s last record to date, as divorce and internal strife ended their professional and personal relationships. The musical composition coheres in the work’s installation, presenting a dynamic and moving ensemble performance Kjartansson refers to as a “feminine nihilistic gospel song.” Through its unique arrangement of music in space, The Visitors creates a layered portrait of the house and its musical inhabitants.
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full graphic composition
graphic elevations
SCALE MODEL
model photographs
Feminine Ways
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A pink rose
In the glittery frost
A diamond heart
And the orange red fire
Once again I fall into
My feminine ways
You protect the world from me
As if I’m the only one who’s cruel
You’ve taken me
To the bitter end
Once again I fall into
My feminine ways
There are stars exploding
And there is nothing you can do
My Feminine Ways is based on a poem written by Ragnar’s ex-wife Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir. He’s chosen it for an installation presently at Kiasma, Helsinki.