New General Catalog is pleased to present Round Here, Darri Lorenzen's first solo exhibition in New York City. Lorenzen’s mixed media works emphasize spatial dynamics, where the show location is cast in the leading role and the viewer’s awareness/perception is the dominant subject matter.

Lorenzen often works with sound installations and site-specific photographs to create a sense of dislocation. Both the artwork and viewer’s interaction with the space itself is subtle yet potent. At the Ballhaus Ost in Berlin earlier this year, Lorenzen exhibited Catch the Drift, an installation consisting of an oscillating fan situated on a wooden trunk. The appliance was outfitted with two tiny microphones that amplified the whirring sounds as it rotated back and forth. With this slight adjustment in decibels, the manipulated aural experience transcended the expectations of the visual object, heightening one and diminishing the other, confusing what we hear, who is actually listening to us, and what we feel upon such an encounter.

Darri Lorenzen was born in Reykjavik, Iceland (1978) and currently lives and works in Berlin. He has exhibited internationally at a number of galleries and museums, most recently the Kunsthalle Loppem in Belgium. Lorenzen received his education at the Kunsthochsule Berlin-Weissensee, the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, and Royal Academy of Arts & Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands.