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The pictorial universe of the young Swedish artist Bo Christian Larsson has its fulcrum in an archaic dream world, a sort of "non-place", dominated by mythic elements and archetypal characters drawn from the collective unconscious. Larsson works with drawing, sculpture and performance, often allowing these to relate to each other. His performances serve as a kind of catalyst for the permanent works, which sometimes appear like surviving archaeological finds. Typically, Larsson's sculptures are made up of a combination of both recognisable and symbol-saturated everyday items, such as shoes, hats and books, in atypical combinations with various materials and objects, such as candle wax, feathers, iron chains and light bulbs. The fundamental tone in Larsson's art is masculine, dark and romantic. He often takes an anthropological approach to his works, but never provides definitive answers: "I see my works in terms of the onion principle. You can peel off one layer after another, but you never find a real core at the centre. I believe more in the act of living and, of course, dreaming." Bo Christian Larsson was born in 1976 in Kristinehamn, Sweden, but has trained at art academies in the Netherlands and Australia. He moved to Germany in 2004, and now lives and works primarily in Berlin. His works are represented in several public collections, including Hamburger Kunsthalle, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, where he will also be holding a solo exhibition in winter 2012.