“He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.”

— Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 (2006)

One of the central themes of my work is the intimate history of the individual, which is a kind of interpretation of the heritage, tradition, and culture of a community and time in a specific space. I strive to continuously develop my artistic practice through the method of unravelling narratives, positioning myself as a storyteller – I believe that artists should be able to tell a story. My artistic work is intermedial, situated at the intersection of photography, video, printmaking, design, and research. It is precisely this transmedial approach that allows me to construct layered narratives whose content is not only interconnected, but comes together to form my personal archive. 

Although I do not claim to have definitive and unambiguous answers, through archival research I seek to expose the past in order to define the present, as well as my own identity. Within this complex relationship between diverse family backgrounds and imagery, and in the search for partial, personal interpretations, the motivation for a public disclosure of intimate and deeply private information begins to dissolve. Perhaps it is precisely in this act that the search for the present and identity is most clearly manifested. In the purity of the stage dominated by visual stimuli, I wish for the viewer to become aware of the atypical nature of these works. Confronted with pure documentation, the act of observing unfamiliar, decontextualized faces and narratives becomes subtly unsettling.