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I am a visual artist drawn into movement research.I work with incommensurateness, fear and disorder.
I look for active relations between body, objects, space, place and architecture, so as to evoke new embodiments and the non-functional and transparent aspects of their existence. I create site-specific installations and live art situations. I write poetry which is often a part of my performances. I also work in video, drawing and photography.
I am interested in the states formed by materiality and in everyday life situations.
My practice relates to my research into presence, into identity and non-identity, as well as to recording the impressions, states and feelings expressed through it. My principal aim is to create works that provoke an emotional response in the viewer/receiver as well as expressing universal concerns.
I used to create my pieces using my own everyday objects/things/products whose basic feature is utility. I wanted to remove from them – their necessity, force of existence by depriving them their functional aspect. I was interested in a change of the identity of those objects, in their existence through the fact of their being, in a possible state of their transparency.
I say, “I work with facts”, as in example a glass, a tree, or the impossibility of being something else than human. I am interested in the state of transformation/change/metamorphosis: when something doesn’t cease to be what it was and, at the same time starts to be what it has never been before. I usually start my work with a specific physical location or place as its reference point.
I am also interested in dispersion: the unlimited state that activates the space and the in-between meanings, the state that points out a specific separateness of each part within its entirety.MY RECENT RESEARCH:
Due to living in a big city the pedestrian body state and movement is the one that I study and work with. I am very interested in abandoned spaces, non-subjectivity of a city and the state of their embodiment. I look for performative situations created unconsciously and with no intention by people in city spaces by carrying similar mind and physical state. I study waiting spaces like railway stations, undergrounds how they form people in relation to open city spaces and its leisure areas. I am interested in the state of waiting, expecting in matter of its bringing underlying connections to bodies in the same condition. I am also interested in observing division evoked in between groups of people related to different function or jobs. In accordance with this I search for ways to work with the public as a dynamic substance in my performances or installation/performances, as well as a mode producing the meanings.
