I am a visual artist working with drawing, sculpture, text and moving image (both 16mm film and video), creating works that often draw upon historical stories and symbols, to explore parallels in today's society and culture. My practice is a constant research into finding idiosyncrasies within our contemporary society - in ever constant flux - and pairing them with contrasting archetypes to create delicate, temporal and half-familiar hybrids of what we think we understand.
LIQUIDATE IT ALL AWAY (2016-2018) – installation view at Bunkier Sztuki Center for Contemporary Art Krakow PL - Installation of sculptures, photos, drawings, found objects and a video work with the same title.
As part of the exhibition The Trouble with Value (curated by Kris Dittel)
Review of work and exhibition at Onomatopee by Metropolis M:
https://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/35708_the_trouble_with_value_onomatopee
RELIC OF A MAN’S SANDAL – SIZE 54 (2017) 37cm x 18cm x 5cm - fired and glazed ceramic
LIQUIDATE IT ALL AWAY (2016-2018) film still - The film Liquidate it all Away focuses on how sellable, or liquid, an object is. Objects are made liquid when there is either high demand, or it is priced (very low) to sell. Liquidating forces a value upon an object that ignores any sentimental value, nor acknowledges any investment of labor and time. Liquidation is about free movement and immediate transfer. The film was shot on 16mm color film, with hidden video footage from Estate Sales I visited, and integrates found footage from auction houses and appraisers.
This work was made possible with the support from O & O
Burn Spring Blossom Longing Goat (2016-2017) – film still - Within today's intangible capital of social-media circulation, BSBLG focuses on 'desire' as an asset, gaining value the more it circulates. The film progresses from an unified, 'for the community' public plan, where grass, being abundant and free, as well as the land where it grows, shifts towards a privatized and even lonely agenda.
Burn Spring Blossom Longing Goat was shot mostly on 16mm color film and includes research photos I took, as well as footage from MTV's cribs - the Mariah Carey episode.
https://vimeo.com/175295402
In the beginning, chaos - watercolor, graphite, ink, collage on paper - 56cm x 75cm
Carpet landscape cave (from the High Places series) - watercolor, cola drink, ink, graphite on paper - 56cm x 75cm
FREEZE FRAME OF THE LAST TORNADO - 31cm x 19cm - watercolor, graphite, ink on paper
