Icaro Zorbar’s installation Shaping Lines captures parallel and contradictory situations with recorded, sculptural and live material concerning the experience and endurance of time.
Through his work, Zorbar consistently questions the nature of being human.
In order to navigate this existential labyrinth, he composes narratives where different technologies entwine within a certain space. Some of those installations struggle to keep going, and like us, demand specific care. These scenarios he calls 'assisted installations'.
Zorbar performs some of the assisted installations for the opening of Shaping Lines. These reincarnations of obsolete technologies affirm the unstable physical and sonic analogies where limitations, gravity, electricity, tricks and fragility operate at the same time. His work lies somewhere between works of art, machines, and games consisting of screens, science fiction, and mirrorings, conjuring an uneasy but beautiful world.
Curated by Julie Lillelien Porter and presented in collaboration with Borealis- festival for experimental music. Supported by Norwegian Visual Artists Fund.