LIGHTROOM
BY Sigurður Guðjónsson

18.01.22 - 13.03.22

The exhibition LIGHTROOM by Sigurður Guðjónsson is a journey into the core of technology and its relics. Through seven video installations, Guðjónsson intricately reflects on devices and machines that have been overtaken by current technological developments and gradually become memories of our collective past.

In these works, time passes slowly. Soft and resounding images reveal movements and changes in structure, rendering commonly hidden sequences of rhythm and reflection into visible form. On the threshold of recognisable everyday mechanisation and abstract imagery, Guðjónsson's works focus on electronic components that have become detached from ordinary life, as they become reawakened and appear in a new and poetic light.

Set within the bunkers of Regelbau 411, the former workings of particular technological activities are brought to life, although completely devoid of their original functions and value. Rather than being perceived as general-purpose objects, they are extraordinarily transformed into a revered experience, laced with unseen powers and reminders of antiquity. 

We often think of technological change as a process dissolving the world of former times. Employing modern technology – digital video and sound – the exhibition seeks to reveal an interlacing of past and present, infusing the ruins of the past with new life.