The mystery of how the universe works is a key element in his art. The work ‘Object With Associative Array’ (2014), shows how Tyson’s infinite patterns of mystery connect words, places, figures and thought. As he explains: “Under every thought there is a sponsor in thought, there is something else, and something else.” An artwork is thus things, which we do on the surface, but underneath there is a deeper process to it all, a pattern: “I like to think of myself as software, and these drawings are the output.”

“For me the best works, allows you to access the condition of your own being”. Working in a process of constant search is a central element in Tyson’s work: “When I was a child I had a desperate need to understand my place in the world, I laid in bed thinking of infinity.” This thought is a clear example of how Tyson combines his own wonder about the universe with his work as an artist. Many years after this childhood memory he made a drawing showing stars in the universe creating a pattern that said ‘Turn Back Now’.

Keith Tyson (b.1969) is a British artist, who won the Turner Prize in 2002. His work revolves around the complexity of the universe in many different shapes such as generating systems for his art, creating motherboard sculptures, showing associative objects such as the exhibition ‘Large Field Array’, and trying to understand the self and how everything is connected.

Keith Tyson was interviewed at the David Risley Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark by Kasper Bech Dyg.

Camera: Nikolaj Jungersen
Edited & produced by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014

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