Ragnar Kjartansson: Mercy

NGV presents the Australian major solo exhibition of Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson, heralded as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary art today. Drawing on a multitude of references from literature, cinema and pop music, Kjartansson's work offers a critical yet comedic commentary on contemporary life and culture. The exhibitions features new and recent video works that define Kjartansson’s art practice, which is steeped in humour, music and theatre. Key works include his recent pastorale Sunday Without Love, in which we see people clad in folk costume in idyllic scenery, repeating the lament ‘You must learn to live without love, love is not good for you’; and the acclaimed nine-screen installation The Visitors, 2012, filmed at Rokeby mansion in upstate New York.