Jurjen Galema: “I want people to join in sin”

“I have already worked out two of the seven sins so far; pride and lust. Lust was a kind of strip club and titty bar. Pride took the form of a nightclub, where I organized drag shows. So now laziness, followed by avarice later this year in the Grote Kerk in Zwolle, and next year I will work out gluttony for Into Nature. The church is an ultimate location for a project about the seven sins! My plan is to make a large sculpture that people can lie down next to. I want people to join in sin. I myself grew up in a traditional village in Friesland, where faith was very important. Working on this theme is also a reaction to that morality that people can cling to. There are so many things you have never experienced that you can judge. The medium, the way I work and the sculptures I make are not meant to be confrontational. I'd rather take someone with me and show them an alternate reality. Put all judgments aside.”