After a Much-Maligned MoMA Retrospective, Björk’s Hometown Museum Gives Her a Second Chance

“When you listen to a song for the first time, it is like swallowing a whale.” So reads the wall text in an exhibition by Björk, a pop star whose relationship to music has long been unique, to say the least. She adds, in the same handwritten scrawl, “I don’t think of myself as a visual artist … Everything I do comes from a sonic point of view. This is something I have called ‘sonic symbolism,’ sound made visual, a reverse synesthesia.”All of