Artistic Statement
Starting from a theatrical departure point to a platform of visual art, my artistic practice unfolds itself at the intersection of theater and visual art. I mostly work installation based, which I see as a theatrical stage. These installations are living, breathing spaces that depend on human activation, inviting playful exploration and evoking deeper emotional resonances.
Through the creation of theatrical environments, I explore the act of ‘flipping’. Together with my intended audience, we uncover the beauty in the overlooked, the absurd, and the everyday. When entering these spaces visitors unknowingly become both actor and audience.
I use objects as a means to explore and reflect on connection and shared experiences. I seek out displaced, mundane objects—things overlooked or seemingly insignificant. I offer them a symbolic home, a shifting and flexible form of belonging. This can be a physical space but can also be a mental or emotional space, reshaping how we relate to these objects. The objects and themes that I work with often carry a sense of melancholy. They have either been cast aside or exist in the periphery of our lives. In the process of finding a place where they belong, they transform into something more playful and joyful than they were before.
By giving new context to objects and by placing them in spatial interventions, my work embraces the absurdity and beauty of the everyday. I invite audiences to reimagine their relationship to what shapes our shared human experience. These objects, through a change in perspective, become conduits for new narratives, revealing their latent significance.
I see my role as an artist similar to the one of jester or clown. By using humor and light-heartedness, I challenge what seems to be self-evident and invite the audience to explore their own biases and assumptions.