Gardar Eide Einarsson: DISTINCT FUNCTIONAL LAYERS HELP ESTABLISH HIERARCHY AND ORDER

The tension that is created by this system of opposing forces produces an instability that becomes both an integral part of the structure, and the energy that ultimately undermines it. The destructive instability is in turn counteracted by further emergent layers.

Difference becomes sameness, as sameness becomes something else again.

The very principles of juxtaposition, by which the installation operates, are counteracted by that something else again. Nothing is as it seems because nothing is allowed to stay the same—visually, cognitively, emotionally.

About the exhibition

The exhibition presents a new installation and works on paper. The installation consists of three light posts, each with four blue LED lamps of a kind used on specific train stations in Japan. The supposed anti-depressive color of the light is intended to reduce the number of suicides committed on these stations. The paintings on paper are created using fluorescent pink paint.

The exhibition is Einarsson’s fourth solo exhibition in the gallery. Einarsson has previously had solo exhibitions in institutions such as ARoS, Aarhus Art Musuem, DK, Bergen Kunsthall, NO, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE, Reykjavik Art Museum, IS, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, US, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneve, CH, Museum St. Louis, US, Frankfurter Kunstverein, DE, Swiss Institute, New York, US amongst others. Einarsson lives and works in Tokyo.