With my sculptures, objects, and installations I explore the nature of belonging and the longing for it while living through fragile realities. Here, I focus on how form and materiality are shaped by and can be used to shape memory, dreams, and identity. In particular, drawing on my background in media studies and architecture, I work within the ruptures of domestic space in today’s digital age that challenge the idea of home as well as its narrative as a self-made, Arcadian refuge. In this space of instability, I aim to highlight the never-ending, yet cruelly optimistic search for a sense of belonging in a ruinous world.

A collection of materials and forms constitutes the basis of each body of work. They are carefully sourced both online and offline and range from discarded sheet material used for furniture over domestic objects to ubiquitous urban fragments as well as clippings from the margins of digital media. Collecting them to be altered and reused becomes a means to connect with different material ecologies and the stories they entail.

However, as remnants, they also share the evocation of a ruinous openness: a latent potential for connection awaiting reassembly. This potential—which itself isn’t only present in what is physically broken—is the material for my practice. As such, reassembling mirrors how we continually remake ourselves from often contradictory elements to regain agency. My use of visibly applying temporary fasteners and DIY-joining techniques speaks to this notion. Thus, my sculptures invite the viewer into a space, albeit mended and stitched, that emerges from the coexistence of disparate meanings and narratives.

In my recent work, I have focused on embracing the aesthetics of surface as both image and material. It has become increasingly important to me that my works occupy a space between the tangible and the virtual, further reflecting on the instability of contemporary identities whose realities are reciprocally shaped by digital and physical experiences. Concomitantly to using images in a virtual sense, I create three-dimensional surfaces and objects from images. This gives me the chance to engage more deeply with absence and desire as central aspects of my work.

We long for things that may be impossible to fully reach and grasp, yet continue to seek them. It is an emotional and existential drive that is universal, yet profoundly shaped by our individual experiences. Through my work, I ultimately seek to create an atmosphere that resonates with viewers' own experiences of longing and loss. In this context, house, and home become metaphors that offer a space to explore the tensions between the desire for connection and the realities of emotional and physical displacement in the digital age. Situated between the cosmological and the mundane, this space is not one of resolution, but one that embraces the instability of identity and the shared process of searching for connection and its inherent beauty.