INTERVIEW with asian curator
What is the primary role of an artist in society? Tell us about your own personal evolution and your ongoing commitment to arts.
An artist’s role in society is a big question. At the very core, I see him as a magician who expresses what couldn’t be expressed in other ways. Artist are here to seduce, inspire, mirror, digest, predict, criticize. It depends on what kind of an artist you are, but all of us are bringing ideas into the material realm to say things we find meaningful. I evolved from a more conceptual approach to dedicating my days to spend as much time as possible in the flow state as my current works all work with this direct intuitive expression in which I am almost watching myself create the works without interfering.
I am open to all mediums. I’ve worked in sculpture, installation, photography, film and now I’m in a phase where I work mainly with textiles and making spaces for other creatives. It’s a daily practice and at the end of the day, it’s a direct communication between me and the universe and other people can always join this conversation if they’d like to listen. The beauty about working so intuitively is that you look at the studio at the end of the day and are surprised and satisfied, because you didn’t know what kind of plants would grow – all you knew was that you had to show up in the studio and water them. They will grow by themselves over time. That pretty much sums up my art making process currently.
Take us to the beginning of your story. How did your tryst with art begin?
I’ve been drawing since I was a kid – first thing in the morning for hours. Then came Lego. Then building of tree houses. It kinda never stopped for me after that.
At twelve years old, I had a drawing up in my school in some kind of exhibition and a teacher liked it so much, he offered 50 Deutsche Mark to buy it. That’s the first time I understood that it’s actually possible to survive with making art. I remember buying enough chocolate for months, but I ate it in a week instead.
How do you describe yourself in the context of challenging people’s perspectives via your work?
I used to make more conceptual pieces with witty punchlines about the state of the world we live in or whenever I felt I understood something, but eventually I got bored of knowing what the end result would look like.
Now I create much more from my intuition and let the viewer challenge their own process of making sense of it. When you look at the work, it always shifts – it’s still in the process of becoming and you will see and unseen many times.
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