Artist Statement
The first series I am submitting are four works from ‘Breathe’, where I create contextualized images with already existing, abandoned or tossed graphic material.
I collect images from the endless pool of the web, then select tiny fragments and rearrange them into digital photomontages. The small fragments are my color palette and the compositions are inspired by art historic canvases.
Online ephemeral substance as sculptural matter to the offline world we still breathe in.
The second series are six works from ‘To have a Body’.
I am interested in the act of being and existing from a tactile and existential standpoint. I depict the human body as a container of emotions, ideas, stories but also bones and the skin. I place an image of a human body as a measuring stick within a set of humble materials such as painted pine wood slats, cardboard and printed paper. I place it in variations of perspective and scale, firstly to mislead the eye and explore the limits of perception, and secondly to investigate how we fit our bodies into structures that can be physical and, overall, mental.
The constructed installation functions as an ephemeral collage that I disassemble immediately after the shot, leaving the photographic medium the responsibility of registering its existence, the moment that will never exist again.
The amount of degrees mentioned in the titles are used to indicate the width of the angle occupied by the body, on the two-dimensional plane.
