Icaro Zorbar
Icaro Zorbar is participating in the MUNCH Triennale with a new commission.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Born in 1977 in Bogotá, Colombia. Based in Oslo.
Zorbar’s work encompasses different fields, researching the creation of hybrid machines, made with old and newfound parts and with obsolete and current technologies. It directs our attention toward reproduction devices (turntables, music boxes, slide projectors, sound systems) and their bizarre ability to freeze time and keep it frozen almost indefinitely for as long as the electricity permits.
Combining his personal experiences with literary and cinematographic references, Zorbar questions the relation that humans establish with what surrounds and transforms them, what encourages or limits them, making multiple readings possible at different levels, all of them capable of transmitting fallibility, the feature that lies behind every human action.
