Artist Statement
I am an artist and writer working across painting, drawing, text, installation, collage, and video. At the core of my practice is an engagement with “traces of trauma,” approached through sites such as the female body, architectural spaces, archives, and found imagery.
The body, particularly the female body, has been central to my work from the very beginning. In an early series of navel paintings, the image of the scar marks the most fundamental “caesura” (following Freud and Bion): birth, as the primary trauma of our lives. In my work, the body is both an image and a mode of operation within my practice.
The body is bound to a conception of space as a non-hierarchical archive, akin to a body that retains the traces of what it has undergone. This archive is read through a visual inquiry that gives form to what lies beneath the surface.
Many of the images in my work are drawn from photographic sources. At times I produce the image myself; at others, I work with existing photographic archives. I am drawn to archives in which I recognize a bodily, bleeding wound.
My practice is grounded in processes of transition. The image undergoes a continuous process of dismantling, assembling, connecting, and repeated breakdown and reconstruction. Within this process, it shifts between material and digital, between ghostly and tactile, from positive to negative, and across different registers of representation.
In my time-based works, artist’s books and video, editing functions as a central mechanism, enabling movement across media and between images. Bringing together elements created separately generates new relations out of rupture. The gap itself becomes the point of connection, a “caesura” that is both action and content.
My work operates between material action and conceptual thought, unfolding through a non-linear logic. It engages with contemporary discourse on trauma, the archive, and representation, while insisting on the bodily and visual as sites of knowledge. Here, the archive shifts from fact to trace, from information to wound.
