Cueto Project is pleased to present ‘egillegillegill’, Egill Sæbjörnsson's first solo exhibition in New York. The title plays on the concept of multiple identities on an individual and social scale. The work of the artist and musician Egill Saebjörnsson is comprised of videos, installations and performances. Often in his work he includes components like daily objects, sculptural elements, sound, music and projected videos in order to reconstruct and reflect on the way we compose our view of the world and experience our relation to this view.

In his installations several layers of representation are placed, or take place, over each other. The elements in Saebjörnsson’s work are designed to destroy their own authority, recognizing that the archive of a specific cultural history can only be reassembled as an unstable set of fragments. While sometimes the artist seems to focus on the mundane, he always coaxes the wonder out of seemingly small events. His composed installations seduce the spectator to take on two roles at once, as both a willing observer of a virtual event and a knowing witness of the image’s own construction.

Curated by London based critic and curator Gyonata Bonvicini, the project is made up of three large video installations, a series of drawings and photographs, and two sculptural works.

Egill Sæbjörnsson (born 1973) works and lives in Reykjavík and Berlin. Recent shows and performances include Falkecharlott at Ellen de Bruijn Project, Amsterdam, DeApple Amsterdam, Westlondonprojects London, Museum of Modern Art Sydney, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Isabella Bortolozzi and Neugerriemschneider Berlin. Forthcoming are a performance at Kölnischer Kunstverein Cologne, and a commissioned work at SMoCA Arizona. Also his 3rd album, made in collaboration with producer Valgeir Sigurdsson (producer of the latest Bonnie Prince Billy and Coco Rosie albums and collaborator of Björk for her last five albums), will be released on Bedroom Community later this year.