Statement

With my photographs, I want to abduct the spectator in a bizarre world, where the sceneries and objects of everyday life seem to get out of control. The curiosity to experience and the search for communication are pushing me to long for images with irritating cutouts, surprising compositions and unusual perspectives, that tear us out of the routine consumption of normal media image clutter. Such irritation is necessary for me to reflect upon what we encounter in everyday life. A more mysterious way of seeing evokes questioning of how to look and thus penetrate further into the various layers of the visible. The unique possibilities presented by the medium of photography are comprised of the dialogue with the outside world and the ability to continually question the perception of it according to one’s criteria, in order to expose it, transform it into a visual experiment. The key to the quest for order in photography, involving the interplay of bodies, objects, signs and spaces transforming them to a legible structure, to a comprehensible composition, is not to lose sight of chaos. For me, it is precisely this chaos that gives photography its unlimited liveliness. Normally, we would hardly take notice of the objects, which appear insignificant and banal to us. Torn away from their purely functional context, in fragmented form, visually compact, they take on such a highly sensual aura, that they can develop complex associations.