The act of collecting is at the centre of my work. My fascination with discovering, reproducing and transforming objects from collections of different provenance leads me to reflect on the use of the concept of collecting in both the private and artistic spheres.
Collections subject their components to a variety of processes that alter their reception and interpretation by the viewer. The ambivalence of these processes contributes to the complexity of collecting.
My work aims to provoke these processes in fictitious collections. In doing so, I play with the creation of a collection, starting with the birth of the individual pieces. In this way, I can analyse and manipulate what happens to the objects in the various manifestations of a collection.
Using various media such as papier-mâché, ceramics or painting, I create specimens that serve as components of fictitious collections. Through their combination, repetition and superimposition, I produce installations that invite the viewer into the parallel universe in which these collections are located.
The repeated, sometimes distorted representation of the objects creates an atmosphere of transformation in which the relationship between original and reproduction, object and meaning is constantly renegotiated.
Tausendmal
Tausendmal (a thousend times) is an exhibition in which the motif of repetition is taken up through the use of elements from real and fictitious collections, references from antiquity, animal motifs and trompe-l'oeil. These elements appear interchangeably in ceramic objects, paintings or flat paper sculptures. The mixing of levels blurs the boundaries between original and copy and invites us to discover a common denominator within this diversity of processes and materials.
