STATEMENT OF WORK

My work mixing film, photography and installation depicts isolated social misfits as they journey towards accomplishing mysterious existential quests. Out of my own personal tiredness of seeing relationships being limited by capitalist ventures, my art suggests new ways to love and to exist, outside of societal norms and what is considered beautiful or acceptable. Themes of mourning, sisterhood, wandering, and how the loss of words can establish bonds in surprising ways are at the core of my practice. 

Rituals play an important role: rather than a pre-existing paganism, I see them as a possibility of encounter, a poetic way to express what cannot be conveyed through speech. I film in an experimental way, during which my non-professional actors and I engage ourselves both physically and psychologically. I use a free-form of writing and with an anti-directing approach, giving actors little directions but a series of gestures I am to capture during the filming process. Working solely with my actors is important to my practice; this starkness is essential to enable me to create an environment conducive to the accomplishment of a sincere and intimate gesture which will translate into the work, whilst building an anti-hierarchical space, and challenging moving image production. In this way, I use the image medium as a means to try to reach an inner experience. Thereby, the process becomes as crucial as its trace, as it constitutes the raw matter of the film.