About
Born in Germany 1986, lived from 1998 till 2014 in Greece, studied at the School of "Fine & Applied Arts in Thessaloniki with Specialisation in Sculpture. Lives & Works in Berlin since 2014.
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Artist statement
My primary interest resides in the interactions between art, politics and social struggles. My artistic production led to a continuous questioning of the political context of art, how art functions as a propaganda tool and how different types of political events include artistic production. Using photography and video as tools, my recent projects revolve around the themes of labor, identity, and landscape, in the context of alienation, exploitation, and observation. I mostly depict suburban and rural areas, their historical and social imprints which became attached or carved into landscape and collect details which signify common stereotypes. These stereotypes mark different circumstances that prolong and manifest themselves in the environment which in turn influence the living surrounding, leading to a loop between observation and action.
The images I produce try to deliver the contradictory unity of a calm, a socio-concrete view of content and its screamingly curious, but rarely funny appearance. I find and define my photographic motifs in the field of malice and the careful existence of the real. Here, in the grainy raw, contrast-rich absolute or soberly objective photograph, the contents of the statement come to different validity, since my emotional esteem or dissonant attitude towards the subject cannot be neutralized.