interview by MAURIZIO CATTELAN
MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Is truth in photography relevant for you?
TORBJØRN RØDLAND — Every aspect of photography is relevant to me.
MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Are we living in some post-truth world?
TORBJØRN RØDLAND — It sure can seem like it, and I’m as fascinated by Vladislav Surkov [Russian businessman and politician] as the next guy, but everything will slowly turn sour if we stop looking for truths and just float.
MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Haven’t truth and facts themselves become irrelevant, compared with emotions?
TORBJØRN RØDLAND — Far from it. And it’s not an either/or. You can find truth in emotions, and feelings in facts. It’s our job to find ways out of the pluralistic funhouse, where truth was fragmented and lost among a million individual perspectives and voices. And the way out is through knowing yourself. The solution isn’t to retract to a single traditional voice…