In my work I combine different media such as painting, photography and performance. Painting runs through my practice like a red thread, connecting the dots between the different media such as photography, drawing, performance. Often it evolves into life size built up sets and scenes.
My body is my playground as my most available object and subject at the same time. I put my bodily experiences into images: the sensation of my skin, legs, arms, ears, belly, breasts, voice, feeling the waters inside, imagining the blood. I am inspired by films, their lighting, set up of scenes and modelling of characters. I use masks and costumes. When I put on a costume I realize I become somebody that I may always have been; calm and serene or powerful and fearless. From Wonderwoman to pink Teddybear outfit, is this my true self now? What is the true self anyway and who is to decide?
My images show unsettling situations, at times grotesk, ridiculous, awkward to look at, or pleasing and luring. Painted and built low-fi stage sets evolve for rising figures and characters. Bodies, faces and scenes are pulling you into their own reality. By making an image, video, performance or photo I can touch specific sensations and ask questions by picturing them, feeling also the body of paint, tasting the fluid colours, stroking the surface of the canvas, being live in time and space with a heartbeat, being flooded in streetlights to create a new body, that lives in the materiality of painting, photography, performance in the same time and space as your own fragile and endless appearance does. I enter a different universe, a reality on its own.

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