Within my artist practice, I develop my work through video, installation and currently, with living micro-organisms to explore the hidden and untamed facets of the self, that consolidate one’s own existence. An attempt to connect with the most intimate parts of one’s self – through the body’s biological and non-physical dimensions – attempting to integrate the being in its entirety. A search for underlying aspects, that might have been neglected or put aside, due to their unsettling characteristics, but that when denied, grow stronger, infiltrating and expanding under the surface.
In my practice, I work with water, food, cotton, paint, glue, milk, beeswax, among others, and most recently I am experimenting with the biological growth medium agar and micro-organisms, yet the body is the invariant component connecting all my works. I use the notion of the body to reflect upon opposing topics such as internal and external, the visible and the obscure, desire and repulsion.
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