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: 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 - 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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