In an interview in 1996, Anneè Olofsson explained: "I have an unbelievable anxiety about death. I can get absolutely desperate and hopeless about the idea of dying. It is something that is always there in me. It runs very deep in me. I see no point in anything. Everything is meaningless. I feel like all the young people who are growing up today, who have no aim, no meaning in life. But I don't think about suicide, rather I try to live with the anxiety... "

Anxiety is not a particularly unique source of artistic inspiration, but Olofsson does not depict anxiety and fear of death as a kind of existentialist lifestyle. Rather, she uses it as a tool, not just for understanding herself, but possibly also the world we live in. The pictures often show Olofsson herself, or her family or relatives. On the one hand, she describes her own life more or less realistically. But, on the other, she defamiliarizes this life by emphasizing or commenting self-ironically on her own feelings. Annèe Olofsson presents a strange, labyrinthine scenario. It is like a hall of mirrors in which different reflections are confused to the point where, in the end, we are at a complete loss.
- John Peter Nilsson -

Nominated by John Peter Nilsson, editor of NU: The Nordic Art Review, Stockholm.