(HI)STORY
Art is the cartography of the Self.
.art is the cartography of the self.
Connection
Following the tradition of my artistic ancestors, I claim formal or conceptual motifs of art history for myself and reinterpret them in my formal language. This rather personal part of my oeuvre connects me with artists I treasure and the collective consciousness.
THE VENUS PROJECT
FRAMEWORKS
DREAMSCAPES
THE VENUS PROJECT
(since 2018, ongoing)
Form and pose of the classical representations of Aphrodite and Venus reappear in the capitalist West of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the form of the Mannequin. Banished from Olympus to the shopping centre, does Venus today serve as the goddess of consumption, or is she becoming a commodity?
Is she stripped of her divinity, reduced to her physicality and the representation of an idealised female figure? Who idealises the female-identified, and to what consequences?
The Venus Project is my projection surface for philosophical and socio-political questions and reflection on what it means to live as a female-identified white person in 21st-century Europe.
FRAMEWORKS
(in development)
The starting point and source of inspiration for this cycle was the extraordinary cathedral in Salamanca (Spain), particularly the intricate frame of the gigantic altarpiece in the older church.
In my artistic process, thematic or formal obsessions often come first, the concept of a cycle slowly reveals itself to me through creation. I give myself this time, to follow my curiosity and work without judgement.
21 VIEWS (of the river Barrow)
(2012-2014)
After intensive study of Japanese woodblock prints, and paying tribute to my particular fondness for an extensive series of works such as the “36 Views of Mount Fuji”, which combine geographical features and cultural, and socio-political allusions with landscape description, I undertook a 6-week study trip by houseboat up and down the River Barrow in Ireland.
From the collected photographic material, combined with research of local geographical and cultural characteristics, I created this (unfinished) series of paintings, devoting myself formally to landscape painting.
DREAMSCAPES
(since 2006, ongoing)
Reinterpreting the surrealistic technique of automated writing, I develop the motifs of this series through free associations in a trance-like state. I draw from my immense photographic archive, overlapping time and space, to create an inner cartography. Thinking of life as a journey, the maps of art reflect the encounters and experiences that shape the continents of the self.