The theme that currently guides my work is the plant and animal kingdom. Nature in all its aspects has long been a great source of inspiration. Through my work, I can both let her grow and mold her to my own hand, as well as capture her on paper.
For me, the humanization of nature is a reflection, an allegory of our human condition. This transition -assigning human characteristics to non-human beings or objects- in my drawings is a fascination for me that I often take from myths and folktales.
This symbolism forms the basis of my practice in which I try to tell a story about how to exist in a world where mysticism must be re-created. I experience the humanization of animals as well as objects as an urge to give life to everything around me. This continuous repetition translates into the narrative and goes along with color while playing the protagonists in my works.
In addition, the subject to which I keep returning is always linked to the female figure. She flourishes in all her power as the central point in my works. Her actions and rituals (from past to present) are therefore a fascination that has its origins through the book "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant.
The project I would like to realize through the residency at Tabakalera is in line with the work I make now, but on a larger scale. I have returned to drawing on paper over the past year, but I would see the residency as an opportunity to deepen my installations and experiment further with the inside and outside element and what the role of drawing can be in this context. Here I ask
myself how my visual language will respond to a medium that is anything but the white surface and how my daily ritual of making work in a different environment will respond to it?
