Lo Caidahl

I start every day with a headstand. From that position the world looks a little more attractive and I want to join in yet another day.

Over and over again I choose to work with art because art can be a very special place, where everything is possible and life can show itself from all directions. Where stuffy old conceptions catch sight of themselves and freedom whispers about its existence. In spite of that I sometimes wonder if doing art is meaningful. During a period this question became more and more pushy and induced me to publish a book entitled ‘The claims of art’ in 1999. The question got a temporary answer.

I heard someone say that, if possible, you should avoid doing art and I think this is a sound attitude.

The existential question ‘Why’? has been my steady companion in life. I see our capacity for creating a sense of meaning in our activities. In producing what we don’t need and consuming what makes us ill and passive. In the social games whose idea is to enhance one’s worth and status. But all the time the question returns.

The photograph – the picture of the single moment was my means of expression for a long time. But my interest in time made me curious about the moving picture with its extension in that dimension, so, in recent years, film has become my medium.

Sound requires time. Without time sound will cease. The encounter between sound and the moving picture has been the starting-point for some of my works.

There is never enough time, although time is never-ending. What shall I do with this never-ending time that is never enough? Time that I’m hunting in order to catch up. I’m so busy that I don’t see that it is standing right behind me, looking on.

The great questions are particularly beautiful. Perhaps because they are never-ending.