Geir Brungot
Distorted Landscape

“All outside the door are Landscape”

According to this definition, which was given to Geir Brungot by the well-known photographer Lewis Baltz, Brungot himself is a landscape photographer. He uses the surrounding landscape as a metaphor – a metaphor first and foremost about himself, but at the same time also about what it means to be human.
At the Distorted Landscape exhibition Brungot will present 33 new pictures, most of which are from Vienna. The photographs were taken at different times of the day, and in different seasons, over several years. The pictures include photographs taken through plastic shelters standing out in various car parks to house for example shopping carts. The distorted effect creates a more complex sensory experience. The pictures manipulate reality, divide it, and perhaps say something about being either excluded or locked inside, captured or free, about restrictions, hindrances, and obstacles as opposed to safety and protection.

Geir Brungot (b. 1962) is a Norwegian photographic artist based in Sykkylven. He has held solo exhibitions at venues such as the Stenersen Museum (Oslo), KUBE (Ålesund), Preus Museum (Horten), Galleri F 15 (Moss), Trafo Kunsthall (Asker), Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall (Arendal), and Meetfactory (Prague), in addition to group exhibitions at Lillehammer Art Museum, Drammen Museum, and Fotogalleriet (Oslo). His works have been acquired by institutions such as the Danish Museum of Photographic Art (Odense), Arts Council Norway, and the National Museum (Oslo). In 2022 he will be showing works at various exhibitions, such as at Bomuldsfabrikken, the new National Museum’s permanent exhibition, and the Opera Festival Exhibition in Kristiansund.