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 "Bjork," which opens on Sunday and runs through June 7,
follows the artist through 20 years of her career, from her
first mature solo album "Debut" in 1993 to her latest work and a
new music installation commissioned for the retrospective.
"It's been an incredibly generous and fruitful journey for me,"
Bjork, 49, said at a preview of the show on Tuesday.
Through her long, cutting-edge career, Bjork has experimented
with sounds, images, technology and themes ranging from nature
to feminism in eight albums, numerous videos and collaborations
with designers, producers and photographers, which are included
in the retrospective.
"This is a huge, pioneering endeavor," said Klaus Biesenbach,
MoMA's chief curator at large. "We have one of the most
innovative and most influential contemporary artists in the area
of music embarking on this endeavor with us."
Three years in the making, the show is designed to be an
immersive, transformative experience and includes an augmented
audio guide.
It includes unusual instruments used on Bjork's 2011 hybrid
album, Biophilia, which are displayed and programmed to play
music and sounds in the museum's lobby as well as a
chronological presentation of her music videos and an
experimental sound experience called Songlines.
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Songlines, with its personalized audio guide of Bjork's music and a
fictitiously biographical narrative, details her work and creative
process through her albums and the characters she created for them.
It includes costumes, photos, diaries, music and lyrics, and some of
the characters she created for them.
The feathered swan dress Bjork wore to the Academy Awards in 2001 is
displayed, along with robots for the music video "All is Full of
Love," and the bell-shaped dress created by the late designer
Alexander McQueen in 2004 for the video "Who Is It?" from her
"Medulla" album.
But Biesenbach said the heart of the retrospective is a 10-minute
video called "Black Lake," that was filmed over three days last
summer in the caves and lava fields of Iceland. The song will appear
on her new album, "Vulnicura."
"Our first premise basically is that this has to be an exhibition
that features primarily and makes an experience of music," he said.
(Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy, G Crosse)
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