ARTIST STATEMENT

In my art, I study people and their mutual connections. These relationships are a recurring theme. My work is an ongoing study, and each single work is a link, a next step in my process. Each work teaches me something about my relationship towards others, about mutual connections and bonds.
 
Starting point for my research is found photography. The pictures allow me a glimpse of a world I long for but don't understand at the same time. By working with thread, the images are connected or separated, shaped and reshaped. Recently, I have experimented with collage techniques as well, expressing myself through folding, cutting and repetitions of the material. Loneliness, power, control, dependency and trust are recurring themes.
 
I study people and their relationships from two perspectives. On the one hand there are the feelings I experience towards and about the people around me, on the other hand there is the perspective of the onlooker, the outsider that I am, who is observing the world from a distance, trying to understand the group dynamics by analysing them.
 
My works of art are strongly autobiographic and carry the traces of a past of great loneliness and exception. Childhood experiences have left me with a great sensitivity for people and their relationships. Due to missing out on feeling connected when I was young, I feel a need to record relationships and to make them my own.
 
With my art I aim to show the universal connection between people. As human beings in this vast world it is impossible to function without relations, as even though we are all on our own, at the same time we are all connected to each other.