Sex Tape
Ásmundarsalur, Reykjavik, Iceland

Sex Tape is a joint exhibition by the artist duo Viðar Logi and Miles Greenberg. The exhibition is specially curated for Ásmundarsal with support from WSA New York. Here they come together to present two new, intertwined series of works that explore queer love and sexuality. In the works, the artist duo approach their bodies, each other’s bodies, and others as both material and method, and explore how the boundaries between viewer and participant, creation and experience, visibility and secrecy, become blurred.

Greenberg's work consists of five 3D-scanned and printed figures depicting bodies in passionate orgy embraces, where the form has been distorted so that the physical form is deconstructed. Using a unique technique he developed in 2021, Miles captures the movement of the bodies, then distorts and distorts the surface in a random manner. He then transfers the deconstructed movement into a fixed form using digital solutions, as well as craftsmanship. The method refers both to classical sculpture and also to spiritual research traditions that connect movement and stillness. A material that has its roots in ancient West Africa. The sculptures are miniature models, hand-made with lacquer, but stand as research works that may later grow into larger versions. Viðar Loga's work is twofold. On the one hand, there are two large triptych photographic works, made on photosensitive paper in life-size bodies. They show a group of five individuals in open sexual acts, performed directly on the paper itself. The participants were covered in different substances, such as pineapple juice, soda water and egg whites, which changed the surface and formed patterns when the paper was developed using traditional darkroom techniques. This is Viðar Loga's first attempt at analog printing, but the work is an ode to Yves Klein's "Anthropometries" series. The analog method requires a long time and this slow, chemical-based method is a kind of response or symbolic stillness in the context of the constant acceleration in the world of homosexual sexual culture.

However, he shows a video work in which the sexual intercourse of the artist couple is recorded with a thermal camera. In this way, what is usually only sensory–heat–becomes what the viewer sees. The artists' goal was to shape their own imagery with sensitivity and intimacy. The process led them both involuntarily to movements, because they highlight the materiality of the creative process itself rather than to a literal imitation or to overly determined results. For them, the moment, intuition and the random became the innermost essence of both darkrooms.

In this way, sex becomes an attempt to let go, to put the self aside, and to find the essence of everything sensual in the body. The hidden, the undercurrent, the invisible.

The exhibition is accompanied by a special fragrance, handmade by Fischersund in Reykjavík, as well as a sound work by composer Personaljjesus, who works in Lanzarote.