Alex Bunn
CLOSED TIMELIKE CURVE

Opening Friday 7.10
20-22

7.10-23.10
Saturdays and Sundays
13-15

Alex Bunn was born in the UK and currently lives and works in Oslo. Recent solo exhibitions include Bean Curve, KB Contemporary (2021); Nervous Wrecks and NoPLace (2018). Bunn has also exhibited at Spring/Break, NYC; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Trafo Kunsthall, Asker; Good Work Gallery , NYC; Luhring Augustine NYC,: John Lawrence Sullivan, Tokyo; The Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art; The Penthouse Art Residency, Brussels, Belgium as well as many other galleries internationally.

For years I have been photographing purpose-built sculptures as a compound medium to explore various interests. Some of these interests are inspired by physics. I don’t seek to illustrate ideas from physics but I’m driven to relate them to sculpture. I utilize ideas gleaned from physics to broaden the ways in which I consider the natural world, my relationship to it and consequently what can be achieved with sculpture.
The artworks represent an instance in a cognitive loop between internal and external worlds. The sculptures can be thought of as embodiments of thoughts or external cues to assist in thought. A scrawled blackboard, mood-boards or a detective’s ‘psycho-wall’ from the movies.
Speaking of loops, the proposed project is a film loop. Not a temporal loop of the film repeating but a spatial loop in that the camera repeatedly returns to the same point in space. Much like previous work, the film will be of a purpose-built sculpture. In this instance a seemingly endless sculpture. In this way I can deploy ideas from physics as to the nature of time.

The program is curated by Hedda Grevle Ottesen and Adam Sindre Johnson. k4 is supported by Arts Council Norway and Oslo City Council for Cultural Affairs.