6/24/2023 0 Comments Bjork debut momaIn the room, as I'm sure you've heard, the walls had barnacle shapes on them, and two screens at either end. To the right was a projector playing the Big Time Sensuality video in slow motion, without sound. Waiting in line wasn't too bad, the outside of the wall of the video had each of her album covers plastered on it, along with a short bio. My friend and I ended up seeing it twice, and it was worth it. I did really like the narration going along with it, and it was cool to see all the stuff, but a bit more would've been nice. Overall, I liked the exhibit, but yeah, more could've been done with it. With Biophilia came a return to the dark setting, and really the only things here were notebooks, pictures of her throat (I'm guessing some from before and some from after her surgery) and a statue of her wearing her orange wig and a swirly blue dress. The rest of this section consisted of faceless mannequins bearing yarn costumes, some more notebooks, and another Björk statue, this time in the suit from the album's cover. There was a statue of Björk in her Wanderlust outfit right next to the head of one of the yaks from the same video. Volta's section was probably the most in-depth section it was a lot brighter than the rest, with a large portion of the walls having the mountainous Wanderlust backdrop and the rest of the walls painted bright red. I don't remember this one having any notebooks, but I might be wrong. The room was pretty hairy and dark red, a change from the blackness of the other rooms. Medúlla didn't have too much, her Who Is It bell dress, hair mask, and I believe another bejeweled mask of sorts, possibly from a music video I haven't yet seen. There was also a sculpture of her in her swan dress, of course, which was also cool. I remember really liking this part of the story too. The Vespertine area was pretty nice: it had a clear plastic statue of her in the Pagan Poetry dress, sitting down and leaning back with the music box in her lap. The only photo album I have that has anything close to that is the Biophilia one, though I do remember seeing that phrase written earlier in the exhibit. IIRC one of the notebooks from this section was interesting, because she had written out "octagon, polygon!!" but that may have been in a later area. I quite liked the Homogenic section, it had a statue of her in her Jóga parka, the AIFOL robots, and more notebooks. There was also a wall of red lights much like the one in the Hyperballad video but larger and in the shape of a cityscape, possibly the one shown at the end of the video. The Post era had the jacket from the album cover, the pair of red boots from the Hyperballad video, and, again, some notebooks. The entrance had some sheet music and a small Björk sculpture for the Debut era, and a few of her notebooks on display IIRC, not much. Of course there were also samples of her music in accordance with the album you were on. It changed color to match whichever album's room you were in, and there was someone speaking through the headphones, telling Björk's story as it was written in the MoMA book, I liked that bit. The exhibit itself was pretty fun, as you walked in they gave you headphones and an iPod, which had the Vulnicura heart on it throughout. For the most part, though, I enjoyed it! They had the gravity harps going (I didn't get the chance to hear them play, I don't know if they ever did but they were in motion which was still cool) and the tesla coil, which did play a bit of Thunderbolt at some point. A lot of people weren't too big on it, which I understand. On the weekend of March 28th, I had the pleasure of getting to see both Björk in concert in NYC and her MoMA exhibit.
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