Ragnar Kjartansson, 'Sunday Without Love', 2025. Production photo by Tiberio Sorvillo
Ragnar Kjartansson’s new exhibition, “Sunday Without Love” (at Luhring Augustine, through Dec. 20), consists of just one work—and it’s relatively tame, by the artist’s standards. The forty-nine-year-old Icelandic artist is best known for his endeavors of communal endurance: in “Take Me Here by the Dishwasher: Memorial for a Marriage” (2011/14), a projection of his parents acting in a 1977 film is accompanied by ten live musicians playing guitar and singing a song whose lyrics are taken from the movie’s dialogue. When the piece was shown at the New Museum, in 2014, the performers played all day (with breaks) for much of the eight-week run.
