In my artistic practice I work with various media such as video, installation, photo, written text and alternative socialization. Whatever medium I choose for a specific project, there is the common denominator in my projects, that I make use of and deal with the image-stereotypes, which most people are familiar with in their everyday life. The everyday aesthetic, which we all deal with but never pay much attention to, can when elevated, made prominent and presented in a new context, be very effective.
Narration plays an important role in many of my art-productions. I have a fondness for personal, crazy, commonplace or wry stories which I often include as a raw material, at an equal level as the other elements in my projects.
The gap between public issues and what appear to be personal narratives has become the central point of my practice, during the most recent years. Without being political rhetoric my art-projects deal with issues related to our contemporary society. Through my projects I produce non-commercial culture and fellowship around democracy-discussing, social and historical public matters. - Sixten Therkildsen 2009