Artist statement

Can a horse go wild again or is it tame once it is tamed?

I am Anton Falck, a visual artist, performer and musician based in Berlin and Copenhagen where i was born in 1992.
I move best to music, and intuitive movement and dance are a strong part of me as a performer and artist.
Artistically, people know me as the dancing lead singer of First Hate, a band I started in 2013 which has since been a major part of my creative life. releasing multiple vinyls, and touring internationally for over a decade. The visual expression and the preformative aspects being just as high priority as the sound.
After 10 years as a full time musician, I dropped out of the Rythmic Music Conservatory and applied to the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts.
Music was my entrance to art, but today my work with drawing, painting and sculpture has a life of its own.

I have a huge need to create something physical that my hands can shape and touch.
It’s a way of digging into myself and the world, putting into being what is impossible to put into words.
It’s often about desire, relationships, power and inner conflicts around freedom and vulnerability.
I work intuitively, often in long, continuous doodle lines. Small scenes with people, objects and animals, especially horses. For me, the horse is a strange dualistic figure that symbolizes both strength and vulnerability, freedom and submission at the same time. It can be wild, but also tamed and I ask myself why we as humans have such a great need to domesticate everything around us including each other, and as a queer person I wonder what was lost with the wildness I had to tame in order to fit in.

Overall, I try to find a language for all the absurdities that life is made up of.
The medium changes, but the search is always the same.
On the solo album I am currently working on with Producer Joel Alter, I work with themes around sexuality and dancing in society’s fringes.

My images lie somewhere between the everyday and the staged. Sometimes very concrete, other times myths and dreams. I am not so interested in giving a clear answer to what it all means.