Erik Johansson

Erik Johansson (born April 1985) is a Swedish-born artist based in Prague who creates surreal images by combining photographic elements and other materials into surreal scenes. He combines images to create what looks like a real photograph, but creates logical inconsistencies to impart an effect of surrealism. Biography Erik Johansson was born in April 1985 outside Götene in the rural middle-south of Sweden. Johansson cites his interest in art as having been influenced by his upbringing, especially his grandmother who was a painter. He said that when his mother asked him how his days were at school, he would rather sketch a comic than tell her with words. Early interest in computers came from Johansson's father who owned one for work in the mid 1980s, where Johansson would "escape to other worlds through computer games." His first digital camera was given to him when he was 15 years old. Johansson said that the camera opened up a whole new world to him, and made him wonder if pressing the trigger could just be the start of the artwork, rather than the final step.