I´ll tell you a story

I have always liked stories, all kinds of stories: fairytales, historical dramas and adventures, droll short stories, political truth and lies, cartoon series, scientific accounts, popular cultural tales, mediocre lyrics and soap operas. These are all narratives presenting variations of reality and are alternative perspectives through which to read contemporary life. Each narrative form provides us with its own pictures and approaches to meaning; it establishes a kind of substance we find ourselves in, a visual throng through which we manoeuvre daily. My favourite stories are fairytales, cartoon series and films. Their devices of idealization, clarity, condensed simple logic and visuality I use to create objects and stories about my own contemporary life-world. Power structures and symbols of power are perhaps given centre stage in some of my works. Power can be terrifying as well as sexy, and it is this seduction that underlies my choice of materials and methods.

My stories and projects revolve around objects that are tested at the interface between functionality, sculpture and installation. The point of departure for my projects is a title or theme that also functions as a framework within which works can grow. I want the works to be able to be read on several levels. They should be open and invite viewers to enter into a room for reflection. By giving artworks several layers of meaning – through title, use of readymades, moulded elements, etc. – I can fabulate around themes both heavy and pretentious. At the core of these themes a human being can be found. Humans create for good and for ill. In what we dream about and strive for – in spite of all our self-assurance and knowledge – perhaps we have lost a bit of control, taken a wrong step.