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Infernal Monologue, an art installation created for Kunsthall 3,14 by the British artist Samuel Brzeski, is inspired by Black metal and speaking in tongues. The exhibition breaks through the cracks of the automated contemporary culture, where meaning has been washed away by excess, exhausted by routines, and repeated into nonsense.

In the main hall of Kunsthall 3,14, we encounter the gates of hell built from digital screens, inspired by Rodin's monumental sculpture The Gates of Hell, based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Black metal growls and speaking in tongues—voices from countercultures— speak without words and reject the obvious patterns of the everyday. A logo of the exhibition's title, designed in an unintelligible script, waves on a flag on the building's façade, is printed on band t-shirts scattered around the exhibition space, and appears on the cover of the 666 copies of the exhibition catalogue. Brzeski's soundscape takes over PARARBOL, as well, the sound shower in our entrance hall.

The exhibition is part of Brzeski's ongoing research into the poetic dimensions of negation and nonsense, particularly within various religious, self-help, and countercultures.

Samuel Brzeski (b.1988) is an artist, writer and publisher originally from London but based mostly in Bergen, Norway. He works with language as raw material—moulding, stretching and transforming texts on screens, on the page and through sound.

Free entrance, welcome!

Please note that the exhibition contains strobelights.

Source: Visit Bergen

Showings

Kunsthall 3,14 (Bergen)
March 15:
12:00
March 16:
12:00
March 18:
12:00
March 19:
12:00
March 20:
12:00
March 21:
12:00
March 22:
12:00
March 23:
12:00
March 25:
12:00
March 26:
12:00
March 27:
12:00
March 28:
12:00
March 29:
12:00
March 30:
12:00
April 01:
12:00
April 02:
12:00
April 03:
12:00
April 04:
12:00
April 05:
12:00
April 06:
12:00
April 08:
12:00
April 09:
12:00
April 10:
12:00
April 11:
12:00
April 12:
12:00
April 13:
12:00

Prices

Free of charge:
Free

Contact

Address:
  • Vaagsallmenningen 12
  • 5014 Bergen
Phone:
+47 55090110
Email:
info@kunsthall314.art
Website:
www.kunsthall314.art/

Where is Samuel Brzeski: Infernal Monologue