ARTIST STATEMENT

In my artistic practice I create sculptural objects, installations and I work with the exhibition as a medium. I am involved in artistic collaborations and participatory projects. I am also currently developing my fiction writing. I try to reflect on accidents, tragedies, traumas and conflicts. I explore their anatomy and transform them into a creative process. An important theoretical starting point for me is Catrine Malabou's concept of destructive plasticity. She gives destruction a formative capacity. I am also interested in the contemporary artist Simone Leigh. Her enigmatic social practice, as in her projects Free People's Medical Clinic (2014) and The Waiting Room (2016). She also makes very powerful figurative sculptures. What interests me about her is the mystery and the preservation of secrecy that is part of any kind of care, not just medical care. I see adversity and trauma as an impulse to CONVERSATION. I don't mean banal small talk, but really focused talking and listening, which is a kind of caring for others and for oneself. This is where I see the connection between my artistic practice and my practice as a 112 operator, where I have worked professionally for twenty years. Here, too, I am bound by confidentiality. Telephone calls - short conversations, real stories full of emotion - are often a source of inspiration for my artistic work, and art in turn has a therapeutic effect on me as an emergency operator. I am currently completing my dissertation in which I critically examine tragic catharsis. I'm trying to update it with a fantasy Pen & Paper RPG that takes the form of a CONVERZATION. Both the artist and the audience are actors. Their game is a work of art that can be understood as a code language in which we can say what we want and need.