Marching Band - Hans Hendrik Fischer

We are disgusted and attracted. And it is quite deliberate that Hans Henrik draws us into these contradictory feelings and reactions. You must feel and sense the unpleasant, “das unheimliche”, in the contrast between the innocent, childish, and the crazy, adult, creepy. In a series of pictures he has used toy effects in contrast to the children, who can seem like little adults – here even the effects of the children’s room become frightening. We must be surprised, repelled and ask ourselves “Why on earth does an artist produce such pictures”? Yes, why? Because he wants to show us something about the world we offer our children and ourselves to live in.