FABIAN OLOVSON
In my work my main interest is confusion, keeping myself in a confused state, but a concrete confusion. I want to make the audience feel that same creative confusion. To get them rushing around a labyrinth that in its construction is created from a maze of tunnel visions.
To use confusion to cleanse the human brain of its references to who the artist is and what the concept is . to put the viewer in the position of personally trying to build on endless lines of thought . of trying to finish the artwork in their own mind . this makes the relative positions of artist and viewer fluid . it makes the viewer into a creator in a mental game . where am I . what am I . am i number 1 or number 2 . what have I done . how do i go on . can i link my own position to what I have just experienced or to what i am going to experience next . do i instead simply rush on . wander around . choose to switch off . walk backwards or simply sit down and carry on with lines of thought that will never end . i strain my mental powers until my body gets up and goes on.
There is no more concrete content than there is confusion. Nothing can better sum up a living human being. A work of art that is not confusing would be nothing but a product designed to fit a human-constructed art market.