The Danish artist duo Vinyl-terror &-horror works in the intersection between music and visual art.
They are renowned for creating witty sculptures and total installations that challenge our perception
of reality.
For this exhibition, they have created a single large work titled "[tense music swelling]." With a
surprising blend of sound, light, and movement, the artists set the stage for a sensory experience
that sends both eyes, ears, and the brain into overdrive.
The focal point is a series of still images and film clips with subtitles for the hearing impaired. In
short phrases, the subtitles describe music, sounds, and moods. These descriptions are accompanied
by a soundtrack and supported by analog sound effects from a number of mechanical sculptures in
the space. The sculptures, made from recognizable everyday objects, send ambiguous signals. The
atmosphere is at once cheerful and familiar, yet tense, unsettling, and alien.
In the borderland between humor and horror, [tense music swelling] plays with our habitual
thinking and our eternal search for connections when multiple things happen at once. Even if there
isn't necessarily one, and even when there are often many. Vinyl-terror &-horror stages the
ambiguity of life in their subtle universe of contrasting emotions.
[tense music swelling], 2022
The exhibition is supported by Det Obelske Familiefond
