Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke – Die Olbricht Collection
You recently made a sculpture of a frightened little boy called High Expectations. Why is this youthful image important to you?
Dragset: We may be getting more sentimental with age and reassessing our childhood in some way.
Elmgreen: There are such high expectations on the coming generations. They’re growing up in a completely different scenario than we did, because everyone is talking about the world going under due to global warming and how we have to stop Western consumer habits.
Dragset: At the same time, they have this incredible pressure to be individualist and stand out. Everything is like a talent show nowadays, even if you’re on Facebook or other social media, you have to act as if you’re a celebrity and everything you do has to be interesting.
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