2010

My photographic and sculptural works focus on physical and mental states poised in a fragile balance that threatens to tip at any time. My installations and sculptures integrate found objects and recycled material; they are based on minimal and precisely calibrated arrangements. The tense relationship between fragility and mass finds an echo in the materials I use, in their various meanings and allusions.

While my works often bear reference to everyday design, industrial mass production, and architectural functionality, they also evoke a surreal, almost somnambulant aura. Organic elements blend into the technological; banality and meaning merge. A piece of metal twisted into a spiral or a lump of construction foam can become archetypical forms associated with fears and yearnings, sexuality and physicality.

Since 2007 my sculptural and photographic work has been influenced by C.G. Jung's idea of the collective and personal unconscious. I chiefly present it in an installation context. As in my sculptural work, I use found material in my photographic body of work as well, such as film stills; I also, however, utilize scenes and arrangements I photograph myself as a point of departure to "continue to build on the image" in an associative manner and to transfer the original material into new contexts and power balances. Depending on the viewer's perspective, my work is either reduced or narrative, constructive or deconstructive.