National Gallery of Iceland to host installation based on Björk’s upcoming album
As part of the launch of Reykjavík Arts Festival next year, the National Gallery will display a new exhibition by Björk that is based on the music from her upcoming album.
The exhibition, titled Echolalia, will feature three installations: Ancestress, Sorrowful Soil, and one that is yet to be named. Ancestress and Sorrowful Soil are tributes to Björk’s late mother, conservationist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, while the unnamed work will focus on her forthcoming album — which is currently in development.
This comes as part of a joint exhibition with British artist James Merry — one of Björk’s longtime collaborators — who will be displaying his first retrospective work in an exhibition called Metamorphlings. It will see him display nearly eighty masks inspired by ancient imagery with different textural forms, some of which have been made for Björk.
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