About

Lars Bjerre's pictures provide a platform for fragility, madness, loneliness, and brutality. They confront the viewer with humans who are in search of their identity.

Bjerre s works reflect the complex and paradox world. In partly distressing, but also ironical pictures, they show the fragile individual confronted with himself.

The detailed pictures make the viewer allegorically face a truth, that one would like to escape from, even though it concerns everybody.

His observation always focuses the psyche of the human being: the search of identity, the fear of lost time, the integration in a society, the toughness of isolation, the insanity of everyday life.

When one looks at Bjerre's works, it is hard not to be touched.

They require all attention.

His art emblematizes the tension, which is caused through political impacts and society forces, as Bjerre reflects it in a creative way.

Besides the critical reflections, there are ironical elements consistently appearing, which make the viewer smile and cloud the seriousness.

Bjerre makes anonymous men in suits meet oppositional objects and creates an atmosphere of communication between them.

Each work contains shocking, weird, and ironical scenes, which always leaves room for ambiguity.

Artist Statement

I’m trying with my art to examine the tension, which takes place between people and the influence of political initiative and the challenges of the society. The focus point in my pictures often circles around the human foundation of existence and the human psychological condition. I often try through my art to reflect the world there is surrounding us and wants to make awareness about the human life world. My art often contains a deeper seriousness blurred with a touch of humour and irony. I’m trying to figure out about the human struggle within its self. About identity and how you look upon yourself and how to cope with the pressure from the outside world. The interaction with the inside world and the outside world and the ways you approach to for fill your state of happiness and to for fill the expectations you have put upon yourself. I worked a lot with terms like disidentification and disembodiment.

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