Biography
Informed by memory, botany, ecology and the anthropocene, my practice involves complex constructs formed through the mediums of installation, drawing and film.
The three principal series:
Drawing Breath - an on-going series, attempts through the mediums of watercolor and sculpture, to assert nature as the super form that it is. The works are elaborated through an exploration of anthropomorphism in literature, botany, entomology and human social constructs, examined through a micro and a macro lens. These elaborations are weaved into narratives that suggest a critique of the human condition through recognizable yet subtle allegories. The works refer to a reverse anthropomorphism, wherein a metamorphosis occurs melding the most enduring physical form of humans and animals (bone) with insects and vegetal matter; thereby creating cohesive 'ultra-forms' that progressively build themselves into dark reflections of a nature that retaliates against subjugation.
The series addresses critical global concerns such as our impact on the environment through the homogenization of nature and neo-colonialism; while attempting to situate the contemporary variants of the Migrant and the definition of Home.
The protagonists within these Kafka-esque situations are generally a mutated form of insect or plant whereas the antagonist almost always retains human form, suggesting that the inflated belief that humans have of supremacy over every other form of life, prevents them from stepping outside of themselves in order to fully grasp the actual condition and the urgency of action within our current ecologies.
Continuum - a public intervention project places the migrant's status and travails alongside Switzerland's ecological landscape in a series of site-specific assemblages that situate themselves in the grey areas (no man's land) between agricultural sites and wind their way through the rural landscape existing along the train route between the two main urban centers of Geneva and Zürich. This project is in its initial stages of conception.
Hiraeth - a natural evolution from Drawing Breath's final chapter Continuum, involves a deep observation of Swiss national identity and what such commitments entail on a social, ecological, cultural and economic scale. The series grows from introspective and subjective parameters, within which individual choices are reflected while proposing a macro view of the nation as a whole in its negotiations within its borders and with its neighbors.
