What (supernatural) gift would you most like to possess?
Flying would be great!
Can you describe your most recent ecstatic visual experience?
Last Sunday I woke up at about eight in the morning to find the moon shining extremely bright through the curtains of the bedroom. She was marvellous!
Of all your works, past and present, which is your favourite? Why? Please describe it.
Well, to be honest, I am continuously trying to develop and re-invent myself and my practice. That makes looking back on my work, recent or past, quite difficult or more precisely in flux. For that reason, I guess I can’t pinpoint so easily a single work. Recently I had several occasions where I could exhibit my work in public, and the dialogue that was created within this interaction has affected me positively. My favourite work is the one I am currently busy with. It’s like a collage of banalities, mystifications and imagery that points to a certain narrative which I try to illuminate with my work.
Can you describe a scene from a film that particularly affected you?
A scene in The seventh seal by Ingmar Bergman. The knight and squire enter a grey stone church in a strange white mist where a fresco of the Dance of death is being painted. Jöns discusses the plague with the painter and then draws a small figure to represent himself. “This is squire Jöns. He grins at Death, mocks the Lord, laughs at himself and leers at the girls. His world is a Jöns-world, believable only to himself, ridiculous to all including himself, meaningless to Heaven and of no interest to Hell.”
Which artist, living or dead, would you like to have visit your exhibition?
Martin Kippenberger.
If you could permanently remove an art movement from the history books, which one would it be, and why?
The current.
Please describe your ideal visitor?
A good psychologist!
And your ideal exhibition space?
A cave.
How would you explicate this exhibit to your parents?
I don’t think that I would have to do so, they don’t really care to know, they’re more into aesthetics. It’s either beautiful or not, they don’t care much about the idea behind the image.
What do you not want the visitor to miss while visiting the exhibition?
Their lives.
What do you not want the visitor to see?
Me drunk.
What would you be (doing), if you weren’t an artist?
A police officer ;p