Récemment, j’ai aidé Spike Jonze à réorganiser ses archives et je suis tombé sur ses incroyables photographies de Björk, réalisées pour le magazine Detour (aujourd’hui disparu). En tant que fan, j’ai réalisé que certaines de ces images n’avaient jamais été publiées. [...] Lorsque Spike est venu à Arroz & Fun pour la première fois (ndlr. un restaurant de Los Angeles doté d’une galerie d’art), je lui ai proposé spontanément d’organiser une exposition. Il m’a répondu : "Faisons-le sur Björk et organisons une "exposition surprise".
Humberto Leon, Arroz & Fun Galleria, février 2024
Extrait d’une interview
Humberto Leon : Humberto Leon : Can you tell me about the day you met Björk ?
Spize Jonze : I loved her first album, Debut, and I’d done videos, but they weren’t that far out of my world—Beastie Boys, Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., or R.E.M. So this was very exciting to get to do a Björk video. They sent me four songs from Post which were all incredible. The idea that came the quickest was for It’s Oh So Quiet. And then I had a call with her, and we just talked, and I told her the idea, and she said, “I love it.” And I was like, “Well, do you have any tweaks, anything you want to do ?” And she’s like, “I just want to wear an orange dress.” My reaction was, “Okay, perfect.” And that was it. It was so easy and fun, and she was just the warmest, up for anything. But I could also tell she had a very clear point of view on who she was, what she wanted to do, and who she wanted to work with, and I was very, very honored to be somebody that she wanted to work with. Then I didn’t see her, we didn’t talk for a couple months, and I started prepping it and putting it all together and scouting it and working on the choreography and all that stuff. And then she came to town, and Detour Magazine asked, “Hey, we want to shoot photos of Björk for an interview.” So the day she got in town, I went to the Chateau Marmont, where she was staying. And it’s funny because the Chateau is now something else....
When Spike Jonze Met Björk, Vogue
