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My work stems from ongoing attempts to create images that go beyond the surface. The results are intentional and accidental which offer a way to the acceptance of not knowing. These outcomes I often combine in installations to a new and temporary order of things. A world where it is no longer about escaping, but about discovering and finding.
In a world packed with subjective knowledge, metaphors and symbols we are constantly busy with interpreting and communicating. Through cultural agreements, we try to define and concretize meaning in order to use them. Nevertheless, we seem to misunderstand each other all the time. We need many words to create interpretation, but while talking we are getting further away from the core. My work indicates the possibility of a free space somewhere between the things that break away from our compulsive tendency to tame the world around us, and to fix appointments and conclusions. A free space that doesn’t arise from thinking first and then act, but from acting and reacting, and then seeing.
Paradoxically, it where precisely the explorers, men of science and taxonomy, that sought out, the previously mentioned, free zone like no other. Although the purpose of their journey was classification, they moved into a limbo of searching and not knowing it. This intermediate world is also a great inspiration in my work. It symbolizes the free zone in which the adventure of travel and discovery goes hand in hand with the desire for the unknown. In my work this parallel often comes back. Sometimes covered and sometimes directly.
The materials I use for my sculptures are very diverse but specific in nature. They speak a concrete idiom through which they suggest a clear meaning. At the same time, the way I shape the materials to form often leads to a moment of unsuccessful recognition by the viewer. The work puts them on the wrong leg and makes room for reinterpretation of what one sees. While working on my paintings and sculptures at the same time in my studio something similar happens. I search, combine and try to find recognition in what I did not know and to be surprised by my own eyes.
My images are specific and abstract, familiar and strange. In conjunction with each other they form a very personal collections of form, color and visual associations. They are proposals for the taxonomy of the temporary convertible order. All you see is a fragment, hesitatingly, always referring to itself or something else. In this environment where nothing stands on its own, everything speaks for each other. In a language where words fail.
