artist statement

With my art practice, it is my intention to explore the relationship between artifacts and social relations. I work with sculpture, performance, video and photography. A large part of my works are made from found materials.

I have a weakness for recycled materials and find value in everyday things that used to live with other people, before they ended up with me. In my opinion, using materials that already exist instead of producing yet another new object in an already cluttered world, is also of great worth. I have mainly worked with women's clothes from secondhand shops. The idea that it is clothing that has been worn by different individuals in their everyday lives, at work and at home fascinate me. Through my choice of materials, I aim to raise a debate about the symbolic meanings associated with materials. I am interested in sugar related to power structures such as colonialism in connection with the sugar trade, sugar as an addictive substance and as a symbolic factor in terms of femininity. I am interested in feminism and the idea of personality and behavioral patterns as heritage. Although traditions and norms of society and culture have evolved and changed, some parts of our behavior feels controlled and pre-dictated by both known and unknown forces of the past. It is as if new culture and old traditions are unable to synchronize because they travel with different speed and follow each their seperate timeline.

It interests me to reconstruct past concepts in order to create a passage on which I can reach in and poke to present tendencies.