Black Kryptonite Mountain

Work In Progress

Single Channel HD Digital Video, 2023 - 24

Screened at Nordic House Reykjavik on 26.9.2023 in a programme of works by Laura Sundermann and Krzysztof Honowski presented by Claire Paugam, Christopher Gerberding, and Y Gallery Reykjavik.

Laura Sundermann and Krzysztof Honowski present a new moving image work concerning the mythical representation of the Achilles Heel. Whether Achilles or the never believed Cassandra, Myths concerning heroes and their unexpected weaknesses are present throughout mythology, whether in Iceland, Greece, or in comic books. Honowski and Sundermann present a work from the vantage point of the post-pandemic present that will seek to describe the European compact, and the present unexpected exhaustion of the people involved in it, as well as meditate on the contemporary interpretation of vulnerability, DC Comics' superheroes' Kryptonite. What can we learn from the ever-present desire to be superhuman? And what does it mean to be cursed by the Gods?