Working with video, sculpture, drawing, and kinetic assemblage, I explore navigation within complex systems of forces. My practice unfolds through what I call "self-sabotaging machines"—fragile, restless systems that are constantly self-questioning. In exploring different modes of movement, I seek a sense of agency amid entanglement, turbulence, and frustration. The figure of the crocodile, a recurring motif in my work, is at the heart of this inquiry. It appears as a crawling body navigating its role between an entity and a visual icon. Through her continuous mutations, she resists fixed identity, rejecting rigid forms or singular meanings. These explorations are rooted in a deeper engagement with autoimmunity as an existential, psychological, and philosophical concept. I see autoimmunity as a mode of being: an ongoing internal struggle within the body, a network exhausted by its own excess that resists collapse by proliferating within the very conditions of breakdown. I use this paradox as a framework for action, where self-negation becomes a strategy for expansion, and instability acts as a vital material principle. In the studio, I build fragile systems from ceramics, metal, stretch fabric, wheels, paper drawings, mechanics, and electronics. These systems, embodying the crocodilian form, are inherently conflicted: ceramic organs crack and shake, fabrics strain, metals bend, wheels stutter under uneven loads, and motors spin at off-center angles. I see these material tensions as fertile conditions for sculptural thinking and creation.
There is a leakage and it cannot find me
Solo exhibition in the Tuin Galerie, as part of an encouragement award for recent graduates.
The exhibition navigates a fragile structure of identity, exploring what happens when borrowed forms of identity are taken in and begin to turn inward.
This project was made possible with the support of Amarte Fonds and Stitching Pulchri Sacrum.
Floor is lava - Carrying us together
Group exhibition with works by Domas van Wijk , Anna Musikhina , Mikołaj Stojanowicz , Tair Uria , Junying Wu. Part of Kunstpodium T's Apprentice/Master program.
The scuffle of the cuddle cage
Group exhibition with works by Anna Perach, Imge Özbilge, Ischa Kempka, Mieke Hessels, Shakuntala Kulkarni and Tair Uria. Curated by Rabiaâ Benlahbib, the exhibition centres on the position of women in a male-dominated world. Where lies the balance between going along with the system of dominance, questioning it, and challenging it? How can a woman prevent becoming alienated from herself in a society built on male norms?
Art The Hague
Grad Show Project: "Overthinking While Executing Minor Actions"
4-hour-long procession, moving from one side of the room to the other.
𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵-𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 —- 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘥, 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘧 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.