Statement

My photographic, object and video work ironically reflects on the risks and side effects of our contemporary image society: It comes to the making of a photography. Because it has always been my means of expression. Often some ideas begin by looking at them, under using classical journalistic photography and take on a life of their own in the course of the production. Sometimes objects, performances or videos are created through research and development on site. I like to deal ironically with the everyday and with the need to nobilitate and explain it through traditions. Visual common property acquires new meaning through duration and justifies itself in the present. I move in a labyrinth of tempus forms, let the present freeze in the past and the past walk around alive in the middle of the present. My sometimes sly play with forms of manipulation and clichés, with interchangeability and uniformities, can reveal the artificialities of our everyday mentality and also trigger a kind of refreshing irritation.