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.