Artists and photographers exploring the fun in failure
was doing the groundwork for his debut group exhibition, he noticed that all of his chosen artists shared a certain wry sense of humour – as is captured in photographs from a shot of a stoic deer lying in a bed, to that of a fully clothed swimmer smiling up at the sky. “I prefer humour when it’s not in your face,” he explains. “It’s a kind you find especially in Austria and the Netherlands; maybe it’s something specific to these countries.
“Perfection is not really a good starting point for creating new ideas, yet most of the tools we use are close to perfection. Our computers, phones, applications and navigation systems make no mistakes – so to sometimes deliberately go towards a mistake, and find a new direction from there, can be good. Society teaches us to avoid mistakes, but for creative people and innovators they are essential.”“When you completely understand a picture, it’s boring.
“We had arranged the deer sitting in this beautiful old-fashioned hotel room, in perfect morning light, when I recognised that it wasn’t just a joke, it was actually a strange but serious and beautiful picture. So I took my camera and made this photo. Playing around means letting things just happen. I think that coincidence is a better artist than I am. It has the better ideas.
“A time when playing yielded great results for me? I once played volleyball with my friends and lost 320 calories.”
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