Olafur Eliasson

Her name is Steffi Bettnerak.

It's not a traditional trauma that you have from a car accident when you were a child or something like this.

No, it's more like a collective, a little bit like a legacy trauma from 100 or maybe 200 years ago where we lost...

through modernity.

The modernity took us away from nature.

I find it very interesting that the inability to kind of connect with nature is one of the challenges, as I see it, we have around the climate and the climate crisis and the whole relationship with the environment.

People are struggling to find the problem that they are facing within themselves.

And when I started doing art,

I wasn't really sure what I was looking for, but I had a sense of here is something that is invisible, but if I somehow work with it, I can make it visible.

Seeing something that we can't see is a little bit like sitting with the truth of something that has pain in it.

Even if there is nothing we can do, we can still do something, and that is to sit with the truth.

What I believe culture or work of art can do, it can bring to your attention a kind of

need to face something that is an unmet need that you have, but you really don't like to address it.

When we talk about climate, it triggers a sensation of, maybe it gradually is getting a degree of despair, fear, this is so overwhelming, I don't know what to feel even.

I go about challenging the climate crisis with numbness.

Sensitizing myself is actually uncomfortable.

I get too nervous.

So what is the ultimate need here?

Well, evidently we have a need to feel safe.

We want to feel that we matter and we want to feel that we are safe.