My practice is a way of thinking about/in the world with a particular focus on how certain enduring ideas, divisions, institutions and systems have developed (historically, culturally) and how art and artist might play a role in questioning and challenging them. We read the world over and over again with the knowledge we gather in different ways and, placing ourselves within those readings, we might try to carve out spaces of action and relation. I try to articulate and share this process, usually in the form of long-term research cycles. Having been struck, lately, by the reproduction of a certain rationality in my work and language, I am trying to move from an authorial position based in critical research, intentionality and self-reflection to one that responds to violent and exploitative systems by giving voice to affect, desire and disarticulation.
UNBOXING: Constructed Worlds (2019-2020) - Invited to make an introduction to the exhibition Constructed Worlds, a selection of non-figurative modern sculptures from the Centre Pompidou collection, I wanted to charge the encounter of the visitors with these very aesthetic objects with a multiplicity of narratives and viewpoints. I’ve done so by broadening the life of the objects in the exhibition, not only to aspects of the practices and contexts in which they originated, but also to aspects of those practices that have presented and contextualized them, to finally include as well the practice of (my own) spectatorship as both a playful and critical process that might be able to open up institutionalized histories to other narratives and imaginations.
VONDERVOTTEIMITTISS (2017-2019) - VONDERVOTTEIMITTISS consists of the works Wonder- what-time-it-is (2017-2019), No Man’s Land (2018- 2019) and A Well-Known Stranger (2019). In each of the works, a lesser known short story by cannonical western authors is re-told, analysed and embedded in a new narration, with the intention to work on de-naturalizing – resisting, questioning and/or counter- working – the categorizations and divisions that have been naturalized in the emergence and unfolding of western modernity / colonialism.
The value in mathematics (2015-2017) - In 'The value in mathematics' I examine the often overlooked relationship between culture and mathematics. Through sculptures, texts, diagrams, and videos, I investigate how Western cultural values, such as progress, rationality and universality, have influenced thought about mathematics since Galileo Galilei defined it as the objective language of the natural world in the early 17th century. While some of the works in the exhibition question the past and present position of ‘advanced mathematics’, others investigate the possibility of the existence of multiple forms of mathematics informed by different cultural values and practices.
The Body in Crisis (2011 – hiatus) - In 2011 I started a long-term research project looking into continuous and repetitive occurrences of moments where the body is thrown into a state of crisis through violent shifts in the conditions of life, and the formal possibilities of representing this body in art. The inquiry took place through the production of a series of works under the umbrella title The Body in Crisis. Conceived as an organised field of research, production and reflection, The Body in Crisis has resulted in a series of works that consist of closely connected proposals and inquiries in the form of texts, installations, videos, performances, small-scale sculptures and graphic prints.
Figures of Speech (2007-2010) - Between 2006 and 2010 I developed a body of work titled Figures of Speech, a long-term examination of processes that occur, when ‘objects’ start shifting their form, materiality, meaning, description, understanding, role, agency...
While I focused initially on ‘objects’ later my interest shifted to ‘speech-acts’, and specifically speech-acts in relation to different forms of agency in artistic production.
