Robotic Sculptures
> In my art, I am interested in the way movement can be controlled when the body is no longer attached to the mind and becomes a tool, capable of repetitive movement only. Consequently, in the last few years I have become interested in robotic sculpture. I have created a body of work that deals with the mechanical movements of the human body.
> I grew up in a culture that used technology mainly for military purpose, while I myself am more interested in embedding it into my private life and thoughts. Technology is usually used to establish power and control, but my interests lie more in describing relationships through mechanical bodies. I use kinetic sculptures, installations, videos and drawings to explore these ideas.
> I love building machines, and seeing how they become to be a “personal machine”. Each with its own identity and character. I think of machines as a real existing entity which just like human crave to live. Assembling the mechanism and making it work is like looking in to a living hart in the human body. The sculpture function as a skin that surround the beating “hart-motor”. In my vision the flesh literally turns into machine, and expresses emotion through movement.
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