Artist Statement
My work strays along fault lines, between light and darkness, life and death, the sacred and the absurd. I'm drawn to unstable borderlands, places where meaning slips, evaporates and transformation is made possible: wounded flesh becomes salvation, trauma turns into taxonomy, canvas becomes enterprise. These tensions fuel a practice rooted in both reverence and ridicule, sincerity and irony - counterpoints held in uneasy reflection.
In my strategy as a craftsman I am drawn to overlooked materials almost imitating the Italian post-war art-movement Arte Povera’s philosophy of necessity. The leftover canvas strips, surgical gauze, twist balloons and their deflated remnants, cardboard, second-hand stuffed animals. Cheap materials, free materials. What is classified as non-classical artist materials. I search for potential value where others see debris. And my mind then finds a way so art will find its way.
Through installations, paintings, and sculptural objects, I explore how emotional, religious, and societal rituals imprint themselves on the body and psyche. Grief becomes calculated math. Blood becomes butterfly. A suitcase filled with painted canvas bundles in emerald and forest green becomes both a quiet allegation… and a self-inflicted punchline.
When encountering my work, expect to be disoriented and amused, moved and unsettled. Expect contradictions: gentleness that cuts, beauty that leaks, playfulness that exposes pain. There's always a degree of self-awareness and a willingness to ask uncomfortable questions while smirking at their weight.
I don’t offer answers… I stage encounters, between the clinical and the emotional, the sacred and the grotesque, the personal and the commodified.
Ultimately, I make art to explore the in-between. To find what is strangely curious, often quietly beautiful, hiding in the cracks.
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