Statement

A longing for something like a core of things drives me in my work. It begins with the fascination of surfaces: House facades, scenery, floor, water, fabric, fur, skin, faces, bodies, mushrooms... Something hides behind the things, in them. I photograph or film them piece by piece, as if I were scanning them with the camera. These pictures are again like mushrooms for me - or foreign planets. I examine them and subject them to further actions, e.g. skinning, ironing, coating, editing in the video editing program, transferring them into three-dimensions, disassembling, reassembling, scratching. It is physical, even to the point of penetration. The material is my bridge. Thereby I want to produce and touch something inner. At the same time, I keep my distance, because despite the immediacy of these processes, they are abstract. The camera is my proximity-distance-regulator to the world - to things, people, situations - and the interventions in images represent my way of dealing with them: curious, violent, timid, lustful, listening, helpless, desperate, impatient, gentle. The pictures become mirrors. My perception changes. Photo objects, videos and installations are created, spaces that are often accessible. They are connected with each other like mushrooms through an underground mycelium. They are attempts at communication. Those who enter can become part of it, lose orientation, be alienated, provoked, surprised.