STATEMENT OF WORK

A plastic bag, floating in the spotlight of a crewless submarine, which is searching the ground of the Marina trench for undiscovered lifeforms. The white plastic bag, entangled in itself, drifting shortly above the ground. Three fish pass by, resembling the plastic bag, white and deformed. Evolutionary slapstick.
My work often starts with a coincidental encounter, a paragraph in a book, a found photograph or debris that our Western society is constantly producing and that gets often overlooked by the general public. These materials create an anti-portrait of our society and form the baseline of my work. I utilize the information and messages these objects bear within them by deconstructing and re-contextualizing their meaning. I draw conceptual lines between contrasting topics like standardization and society or hierarchy and furniture. I expand the boundaries of image production in new directions by pushing images and objects through different stages of transformation. My works are very minimal in appearance and use the negative space of their surroundings. This approach aims to dissolve the barriers separating the artwork from its environment. It is comparable to the relationship between the floating plastic bag and the hostile nature of the marina trench. The plastic bag wouldn't be a weird and scary sight if it didn't occur in the most uninhabited place on earth. Utilizing absence as a form of expression, I aim to communicate emotions and sentiments with the viewer. Employing this technique allows me to shape and direct the interpretation of the artwork precisely without compromising its depth and complexity.