The Relentless Flow of All Things

Sjur Eide Aas Brazil, Norway HD video / 16:9 / Black and White 13 min (loop)

A sloth is on its weekly journey from the treetops down to the ground. A bug is crossing the road, oblivious to the people driving on it. A butterfly interrupted while resting on a leaf. In the video, The Relentless Flow of All Things, Eide Aas brings out the poetic qualities from everyday observations, events, and phenomena, conveying a curiosity about physical laws, and how everything is connected. The film is shot in Rio de Janeiro, early 2020, before the pandemic reached a global scale. The video is accompanied by a peculiar soundtrack, a one-take piano recording by the artist, creating a strange and surreal mood. It also refers to the time before movies had sound and a pianist played to the moving image.

Sjur Eide Aas (b. 1989, Stavanger, Norway) lives and works in the rural landscapes of Gjerstad. Educated from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts and Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Previous exhibitions include; At Hermit Street Metro Entrance, Entrée Gallery, Bergen. The Miracle of the Burning Bush, Was All in Your Head, Noplace, Oslo; Unfolding Questions, Codes, and Contours, Tromsø Kunstforening; The Thinker, Flower Pot and Mush (with Kamilla Langeland) at Entrée, Bergen, and omissíssimo (group exhibition) at Cavalo Galeria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With Kamilla Langeland, he co-founded the artist-run gallery Hypha, and together they were also Artists-in-Residence at Jakob Weidemann´s studio in Ringsveen, Lillehammer in 2019-2020.

K4galleri is supported by Arts Council Norway