Erik Sikora | Narwhal Navigation

The exhibition at the Black Cube, GMU’s exhibition space for works from the gallery’s Moving Image Collection, presents Erik Sikora’s new video Narwhal Navigation (2026), which loosely follows on from his older works The Endless Exhibition and The Invention of Navigation (2007). The videos are a part of Sikora’s long-term exploration of the relationship between the body, the landscape, technology and language. His starting points are movement through the landscape and verbal dialogue. His works also explore our changing conditions for perceiving and interpreting the world. The relationship between the body, the landscape, audiovisual record and language is altered by the advent of new technologies whose present form was scarcely imaginable when he was making his older videos.