Installation view.
A door that opens inwards, 2022.
In the back of the mind, in the corner of the eye, to the bones, to the marrow, 2022.
The Backyard on the Seventh Floor, 2022. Solo exhibition at das weisse haus, Vienna.
Image credit: Lea Sonderegger
Installation view.
The amphibian in the backbone, 2018.
The net body, 2018.
The bedroom windows, Transparent tension, The ladder that neither goes up nor down, 2019.
The dead angle, 2018.
Installation view.
The nervous body, 2019.
The Spider, 2020.
The Backyard on the Seventh Floor, 2020. Solo exhibition at HAM-gallery, Helsinki.
Image credit: Filippo Zambon
Installation view.
Crying for no reason, The blind behind your eyelids, 2018.
The little dog that recognizes you, The shadow of a tree, 2018.
The Backyard on the Seventh Floor, 2018, at the group exhibition Self Bites Self at Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany.
Image credit: Kunstverein Göttingen.
From the exhibition text at HAM-gallery:
The Backyard on the Seventh Floor is a space in-between, a mental balcony, not inside, not outside but an inner outside. If it is a dream space it is dreaming as a way of seeing, as a place to be, rather than a dream to interpret.
Some of the works belong to a series called Pain Things. They spring from a pain relief method based on visualizing physical and mental sensations through form, color and texture. The visualized forms can be extracted from the body and become softened freestanding distortions, unruly misinterpretations of the inner landscapes. At the same time they form a subjective alphabet of emotions, the feeling gets a form to be at home in.
The works are in different shades of blue. Blue is darkness weakened by light. *
For me these works are a kind of shadow substance, frozen moments of something very fluid. They come from places where words don’t behave, where hands are held by an embodied searching-doing-thinking, where grasping always happens with both hands and mind.
(* From Goethe’s color theory)