How do you describe your own art practice?
I’ve always been interested in how photographic images make us feel and their potential to alter the world, including our minds and bodies. I work with sculpture and installation defined by a certain photographic thinking to deal with presence, absence, life, death, decay, rebirth, or resilience. I’m interested in the transformation of matter and approach it from both emotional and critical aspects.
Which question or theme is central in your work?
I believe in the resistance potential of emotional, cognitive, or nervous hypersensitivity. In a world designed to exploit and reframe these traits as weaknesses or failures, I think it’s crucial to address critical thinking for the bio/techno/psychosphere of capitalist realism. In my work, I seek language to talk about personal narratives that can convey acknowledgement and empathy towards collective vulnerabilities.
What was your first experience with art?
The early 00’s post-hardcore scene. However, it wasn’t until Tumblr that I first encountered everything else that truly defined my practice.
What is your greatest source of inspiration?
Curiosity.
What do you need in order to create your work?
Serotonin.
What work or artist has most recently surprised you?
The poems of Kristin Chang and books Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll and Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor.