Höller carsten

unsaturated art
the exhibition is the art
ignorance about art

portrait by CASPER SEJERSEN
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM

ALL ARTWORKS COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
COPYRIGHT ADAGP, PARIS, 2017

BLACK TUXEDO AND A WHITE SHIRT BRIONI

OLIVIER ZAHM — What do you learn from observing birds?

CARSTEN HÖLLER — I learn some things about their behavior by observing them and ringing them and keeping them, and also something about their taste by eating them. But, really, I mostly learn that I don’t understand anything about them. How is it to be a bird? I have not the faintest clue. I think that in my brain there might be some parts that are relics from a common ancestor and that respond especially to birdsong, as I always feel that the sound of birds tickles my brain. Or it’s something to do with suppression, unfulfilled desires, a manifestation…