STATEMENT

My work process exists in a constant state of ambivalence. My ambivalence towards different aesthetics, themes and forms. The ambivalence towards analysis and mystery. The love of sober realism and the simultaneous faith in seductive and magical powers of visual and textual language. I strive to create work that simultaneously reveal and conceal. As one element comes to light, another element is hidden. The mystery does not disappear, it’s simply displaced.

I tend to shift between different expressions like sculpture, painting and animation. I prefer working in series instead of single works. I keep working on a series of ‘never-ending projects’, that are all part of the same overarching process, but represent different aesthetic standpoints. These projects tend to arise as reactions on a previous projects. This way my artistic ambivalence is reinforced, so that I’m always slightly off balance. Whereas one projects exist on the conviction that ‘less is more’, another one might say ‘fuck that! Keep pouring!’. I like to imagine that my projects originates outside myself, founded by ‘somebody else’. This role play lets me explore ideas that wold otherwise have been censored according to ‘my actual’ taste. This way of thinking usually exists as a secret tool. On occasion this aspect is revealed to the audience as a performative element.

I also work with text, both as an independent expression, as well as part of text based art. I decided to study creative writing in addition to art because I wanted a deeper understanding of the structural similarities and differences between text and image, and because I felt that there was still a lot of unexplored potential in text based art.