Exhibitions by the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm not only have a distinctive look, they often also have a distinctive sound: embarrassed laughter. Visitors can be seen marvelling at, standing on, or leaning against a variety of objects as incongruously varied as a 1960s caravan, a hot-water bottle with legs, or giant-sized sausages and gherkins.
“Humour is a side-effect of the method I use, of looking at our world from the perspective of the absurd, and sometimes the paradoxical,” says Wurm. “But I’m not interested in making jokes. I think that when we look at our world from a different perspective we might see something different.”
