artist
William Kudahl
Denmark
Work in exhibition + concert 14 June in Moss Church
William Kudahl (b. 1991) is an artist, writer and composer who works with establishing connections between phenomena across time and space. Through sound, video and text, his works often revolve around topics that are on the periphery of everyday life. There is a consistent interest for the ‘almost nothing’, that which is on the border between existing and not existing.
Kudahl has collected and exhibited audio files that have been discarded by others. He has written down overheard conversations from the train. And he has made radio programs about the air, broadcast on air. Kudahl’s works have been shown at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Kunsthal Aarhus, Lydgalleriet and Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
He currently lives and works in Copenhagen.
William Kudahl
The Wind is Reading, 2025
Video
Reading the Wind, 2025
Book 13x19cm
In the video The Wind is Reading we see a tableau of books lying in the sand with their pages turning in the wind. We follow the books for several days, at different times of day and in different weather. The work is a remake of a film scene from The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov. In Parajanov’s original 14-second scene, a boy is shown carrying books to the roof of a stone church building. On the rooftop, the books are lying open and the wind makes their pages turn. The film is a portrait of the Armenian singer and poet Sayat-Nova( “King of Songs”). It is made allegorically, meaning that every scene portrays a part of Sayat-Nova’s life through a visual metaphor. The book scene is said to represent his time studying at a monastery, where he found the beauty of the word.
Meanwhile, Reading the Wind serves as a companion book, gathering the names and unique traits of winds around the globe from diverse references. Each piece aims to represent what resists representation, each seeking to gather what remains elusive. Their quiet synergy meditates on the intangible nature of wind—its shifting presence, its ethereal whispers, and its continuous capacity for motion and transformation. In gently following these moving pages, viewers are invited to observe the invisible currents that shape our surroundings.
By placing our attention on migratory patterns of the books and winds, the work undertakes a horizontal reorientation of our imaginations of and between worlds.
Concert
William Kudahl will present a composition made with recordings from the organ in Moss Church. Focusing on the simplicity of its single notes, their wordless messages and their impact on the body, the composition investigates the relationship between the inner and the outer: the outer air, the resonances it carries, and the inner movements sound can evoke. Between listening and reverie; presence and absence.
