Biography
My artistic practice spans sculptural elements and objects as well as photography, drawing and video. These diverse strands come together in the framework of installations.
The topics and materials which I focus on are symbolically charged: materials such as recycled leather and fur, bones, horns and other organic matter. They bear traces of wear and tear, thus indicating the passage of time.
I am interested in an ambivalent aesthetic, the simultaneity of attractiveness and repulsiveness, the synthetic and the organic, stark geometry and the ornamental. In my work there is usually a darker undercurrent to what at first appear to be innocuous subjects.
The relationship between human beings and nature in all its forms, above all cultivated and restrained nature we encounter in cities, is often a starting point for me. I investigate complex visual structures combined with my ongoing interest in the structures and technologies humankind is able to imagine and build. Structures as means of organizing the society include such aspects as language, research and science, architecture and education.
Recently I have also used printed matter as material and a starting point, concentrating on the combination of visual and textual matter. I focus on the fragmentary, interpretive and additive nature of history – or, histories – and narratives in general.
