Erlend Mork

My inspiration comes from an obsession with philosophy and looking behind and beyond everyday life as it appears to us, i.e. the usual existential questions. My works are symbolic representations of my views and reflections about these. The creatures in my works are as such mad, lost or isolated, in search of some absolute among the relative, trying to know an objective truth, or just become complete nihilists.

I reject most modern and avant-garde art, in other words, almost all the art that is seen, which is dependent upon time, context, consensus and stupefying vanity. I'm not headed for the instituted art world, I'm born of the underground and compare my work to the art of all centuries, or everything else, like a poem or a pocket calculator. Good things.

Anyhow, I don't like to explain my images very much. I intend to let them stand or fall by themselves.