Softly to Not #5

Two women facing each other, a newspaper in between them. Light and time goes from right to left. Are they entwined or not? Comforting each other or themselves? They suddenly let loose, the paper falls away and they look at each other for the first time.


The personal and emotional history which every man carries is the premise of my work. Memories are experiences reflected in someone's face, glance or posture. They are signals, as elusive traces in the body: manifest or suppressed. I examine the language of the body in relation to its environment. They are a staged-in-context situations, where the human capacity and inability to relate to his or her own history become visible and tangible. There appear to be, however, unsolved riddles. The situations I create are snapshots of a personal history, in which I try to uncover hidden layers of the inner aspects of human existence.
In my latest video works I stretch the image in time. The characters -situated in public spaces- stand for a certain emotion of the one, that is displayed and magnified in the respond of the other who is trying to keep a mask in order to conceal his or her discomfort