In this room, Jónsi has infused the space with the scent of ozone, which is said to also engage photoreceptors inside the brain. Visitors are encouraged to don sunglasses (provided at the entrance to the work) and to stay inside for no longer than ten minutes.
A large convex wall sculpture made from flower-shaped metallic discs and equipped with LEDs, pulsates with short bursts of light and sound before building up in a crescendo of rapid-fire strobe effects. Photo by Pierre Le Hors.Īnother sound and light installation-arguably even more intense than the ground floor work -is accessed by walking through another dark, black-out curtain. Image courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Step inside, and you are enveloped by the musician’s ethereal music, which is both emotional and soothing. A circular black sphere that sits directly underneath is surrounded by a curving wall of 200 speakers stacked on the floor. When your eyes adjust, they settle on a glowing, mesmerizing sphere on the ceiling that immediately sparks connections to the light and space artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater. On the ground floor, visitors pass through a curtain into a pitch-black room. In addition to music, there are also soundscapes of rumbling rocks and searing lava, and the artist has created earthy, invigorating scents that waft through the gallery, with the use a “perfume organ.” Given all this, the show is unsurprisingly fantastically trippy, compelling and-we’ll just say it-immersive.
DARK NOISE ALBUM RECORDED INSIDE A VOLCANO SERIES
Instead, he conjured up the experience by creating two new major sound installations and a series of sculptural works. When the Fagradalsfjall volcano erupted this March, after lying dormant for almost 800 years, Jónsi, who is based in Los Angeles, was unable to travel back to Iceland to see it in person. Image courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Detail of Hrafntinnublómstur (Obsidian bloom) 2 (2021) by Jónsi.
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