I am interested in the mechanism of cause and effect, control and being controlled and to what extent our surroundings influence our behavior. I try to expose this with a balance between abstraction and familiarity. Reality is dislocated but restored to unity in the same gesture, keeping the world at arms length, yet simultaneously bringing it closer, much like we experience modern life.

Although I always start with a main idea, my original plans somehow get deformed in the process of making due to unforeseen interferences that lead me to reinvent the wheel again. By placing myself in this tension and simultaneously building upon it, using intuition and accepting a certain level of loss of control, I hope to come to a work that radiates this as, lets say, the thin sketching lines in a drawing. Different elements and disciplines are often combined as fragments that reinforce each other. The fragments form points of reference that lead to an overview, creating a total setup of an associative character, an erratic construction. Though some facades give an impression of stability, it seems that in this coming to an overview deliberate deceptions have been brought into action. Everything falls apart again.

The overall aim of this way of working is to let the viewer merge into the piece by loosely giving clues that trigger assumptions based on the viewer’s own experiences and memories. Thereby raising questions about the values we put in our surroundings, the way we deal with information, how it is cultivated and processed while sensing the manipulative nature of it all. Whether it is in works that involve industrial robots, cityscapes or moving couches, mental processes are being transferred towards or evoked within the viewer.

Over the past few years, I have been mainly focusing on the subject of architecture and technological processes as well as the mediated environment. Recently my work is gradually shifting from a focus on complex reality around us to a focus on the complexity of individuals themselves.