ANDREAS ERIKSSON INTERVIEWED BY HANS ULRICH OBRIST AND DANIEL BIRNBAUM AT MODERNA MUSEET ON 11 FEBRUARY, 2011.
HUO: How did it all begin, how did you come to art?
AE: Something special that happened, you mean?
HUO: Yes, some awakening.
AE: I actually have very early memories of that, but it’s... I’ll turn the light off, that’s better,
Is this OK with you?
HUO: Yes.
AE: I have one very early memory. My first memory, actually, which wasn’t an awakening
but something that is closely connected to what I am working on, I think. I am looking at a
pile of snow. Suddenly, I lose my sense of space, so it was kind of – “is this a mountain in
the distance or is it near me?”
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