Samtal med Sivert Lindblom

Beate Sydhoff interviewed Sivert Lindblom for Konstrevy in 1967, the year he returned from Locarno and was teaching form theory at the School of Architecture (KTH).

— What are you searching for in your sculpture?

— Something in motion yet still. A form with potential — that appears able to move but chooses not to. That is the difference between a living form and a dead one.

— How does working with architects affect your practice?

— Enormously. Architecture forces you to think in relation — to place, to body, to the city. You cannot have an isolated object in architecture. It has shaped my thinking of sculpture as site-specific, as relational.

— You recently returned from Locarno. What did you bring back?

— Distance. The possibility of seeing the Swedish artistic climate from outside. And the light — Mediterranean light is a different light, built on a different relationship between body and shadow.