‘I need to have the feeling that what I’m doing is alive, that it’s a living organism. so the energy thing is just a way of making me feel that it’s alive. I find little strategies to convey that energy feeling. (…) I always feel that things that are in opposition to each other create a kind of tension. it’s like in an electric circuit where there’s a positive and a negative side. there’s an electricity that runs through it.’ read the interview with artist david altmejd, chosen to represent canada this year at the venice biennale contemporary art exhibition. image: ‘untitled’ 2005 (plexiglas, gold chains, glue) © david altmejd via andrea rosen gallery