Concept

My conceptual practice employs deliberate visual subversion to examine contemporary human paradoxes. I construct aesthetic frameworks that dissect states of being through manipulated found imagery and digital mundanity. This methodological approach reveals the inherent tension between our cultivated self-perception as progressive beings and our unresolved animal nature. The resulting works function as ironic anthropological studies, where polished surfaces conceal and simultaneously expose fundamental truths about our negotiated existence between civilization and instinct.

Projects

Code X

AI book project

Code X is an experimental book project that deliberately dissolves the boundaries between fiction and reality. In the form of a fictional encyclopaedia, it opens up a world that appears both familiar and strange. The visual worlds, which were created entirely with the help of AI image generators, construct an alternative reality that critically questions our understanding of truth and reality. By adapting the visual language and authority of historical documentaries and media narrative forms, the project opens up a discourse on the mechanisms of perception and the construction of realities. Code X challenges us to renegotiate the reliability of the visible and knowable in the context of a present transformed by artificial intelligence.

Index of Omissions

"Index of Omissions" questions whether intellectual knowledge is essential or if a deeper connection to nature holds greater significance for civilization. It explores the fragility of truth, the impact of censorship, and the tension between recorded wisdom and intuitive understanding in shaping human existence.

Installation / Photography

Oxygen

Oxygen was a collaborative exploration of creation, destruction, and reincarnation. Working with Samin Son, Alexa Wilson, and Karin Hofko, the project utilizes live audio manipulation from found video footage, while two projections weave an immersive narrative, symbolizing the cyclical forces of air, fire, and annihilation in a dynamic audiovisual experience.

AV performance

A hold on the knob

“A hold on the knob” is an ongoing visual research project exploring the complexities of human existence through found internet images. By curating a surreal narrative from mundane and odd visuals, the Tumblr page reveals the layered, often tragic nature of life, inviting reflection on the disjointedness and unpredictability of contemporary experience.

Digital notebook

Ghost Paintings

“Ghost Paintings” explores the themes of documentation, reproduction, and decay through the transformation of found black-and-white portraits. By creating negative paintings and inverting these in post, the project reimagines faces lost to time, reflecting on the fragility of memory, identity, and the erasure of forgotten heritage. The analog process questions the preservation of history and the inevitability of loss.

Painting

Edge of dominion

This project delves into the tension between human ingenuity and nature’s inherent strength. The work interrogates the implications of tool use in shaping and controlling the environment, questioning whether such interventions signify progress or an existential struggle against nature's dominance.