I am interested in emotions, encounters and withdrawals, and exploring different identities as well as people's private and public spheres. My approach is highly personal. I emphasize this by making myself the object of my works. In other words, I rarely use other models besides myself. This way I avoid subjugating others in relation to myself - the artist - or the spectator. Since I intentionally use myself as a model, the power relation between the model and the artist is deconstructed in my work.
My work process is based on both acting and authencity. Sometimes I stage the situations presented in my paintings and adopt a particular role. In the more authentic works, my aim is to record the momentary and felt reality, and the emotions experienced during a given situation.
I observe myself in my paintings, but at the same time my approach lacks subjectivity and offers the spectator a possibility for an encounter. When the composition of a painting concentrates on one specific model and all external noise is left out, the spectator is able to enter the internal atmosphere of the painting.
