BJÖRN PERBORG’s creative work encompasses animations, videos, sculptures and installations.
One typical aspect of many of his works and their characteristic humour is the artist’s personal per-
spective on specific facts, often making it seem as if
an anthropologist from outer space were studying the habits and customs of societies on earth. As a result, the absurdity of specific situations or behaviour is made more obvious.
With "Geschichten aus dem Koffer“ (Stories from a Suitcase), Björn Perborg is presenting a new series
of works that combines five oversized suitcase-sculptures with a two-channel video installation.
The inside of each suitcase functions as a kind of exhibition space en miniature, where five different stories are told on the basis of animations, an install-
ation, a slide show and a photo exhibition in mini format: these are Björn Perborg’s personal exper-
iences, but things that could happen in the same or
a similar way everywhere; an artist’s reflections on travel, on the scenarios for events and places in his life, on roots and nostalgia. Finally, Björn Perborg’s two-channel video installation surprises visitors with a grandiose, ‘sparkling’ – in the truest sense of the word – new interpretation of the drum-groove from Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” and a precisely synchronised firework display.

Björn Perborg holds a fellowship from the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS).

Björn Perborg – "Geschichten aus dem Koffer"
3rd – 19th June 2009, Studio 2
Opening: TUESDAY, 2nd June 2009, from 7 pm

GUY ZAGURSKY works with optical and visual illusions. His sculptures and installations invite the viewer to meditate on the infinite and its incomprehensibility, or to experience the simple beauty of a perfect circle with its illusion of endless depth. In Guy Zagursky’s work, beauty is expressed using cool, modern materials such as concrete, neon tubes and above all reflecting glass, which tricks the viewer into a perception of infinity while throwing him back on himself. Zagursky’s works – in which mirrors function as contemporary symbols of vanitas – are cosmopolitan allegories that illuminate the battles and power struggles holding post-modern man captive like Sisyphus in his vain efforts for immortality.
The installation “Syncope” consists of two groups of works that seem to accost each other: on one wall of the studio there are eight machines, constructed by Zagursky himself, which each consist of a metal arm holding a truncheon, a perspex shield and a motor which, as soon as the viewer approaches, causes the truncheons to strike rhythmically against the shields with an ear-splitting racket. The wall opposite is occupied by eight more machines that function according to the same principle, but they are equipped with white sticks for the blind.
This means that their loud, syncopated scratching on the floor joins with the noise of the truncheons to create an almost unbearable, hectic staccato.

Guy Zagursky is currently participating in our International Studio Programme.

Guy Zagursky – "Syncope"
3rd – 19th June 2009, Studio 3
Opening: TUESDAY, 2nd June 2009, from 7 pm