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Video: In the studio of queer Swedish artist Erik Thörnqvist

By Vogue Scandinavia's Video Team

"I believe we can reclaim what we need from history. Reshape it, inscribe it with new meaning ,and create symbols suited for us," the artist says

Stockholm-based sculptor and installation artist Erik Thörnqvist updates modernist designs and mundane materials with magic, beauty and comedy. Vogue Scandinavia meets the queer artist in his studio for insight into a unique mind.

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Hit play below for a closer look at Thörnqvist and his works, human-like modernist chairs inclusive.