Artist statement
My art arises from a need to understand societal phenomena and how I and those around me relate to them. I overanalyze, research, and explore in a quasi-playful manner with the participating audience, sometimes approaching them through forms of introspection and catharsis. I believe that turning vulnerabilities into a bond is the key to the times we live in.
Some of these phenomena are anticipatory grief, rethinking our relationship with nature in the context of the pandemic, alienation and uprooting in relation to migration, nationalism, gender stereotypes, various concepts analysed by social psychologists in their experiments or forced evictions as an effect of racial prejudice and the housing crisis.
The subject matter most often determines the chosen medium, which can be anything from participatory performance to video, installation or sculpture, but the basis of my practice is drawing. It remains my primary visual language because it allows me to combine graphic elements, worked with rational precision, with spontaneity and surreal unpredictability. The human figure is sometimes mixed with animal or plant elements to remind us that we can look at non-human creatures as examples of resilience, grace and adaptability.