HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER ?

In my work, I establish fragile fragments of a new cosmos under the premise that analysis, deconstruction, description, and construction are all conditions and components of world building. In my work, I imply an ethic based on a relational definition of space. To define space relationally is first and foremost to point out that space is constructed, it is created through interaction from the immensity of the global to the intimately tiny. Thinking space relationally manifests multiplicity and plurality, diversity and the simultaneity of different trajectories.

In my installations and performances I employ a language where the phenomenological and symbolic content of experiences serves as a metaphor. Here the immediate phenomenological event is secondary to the conceptual and linguistic activities that take place in the consciousness of the participants afterwards. It uses the mythological or symbolic content of the experience as a tool to create an “inner” level of perception in the viewer. The situations I create lead to real experiences for the participants, but not to an image of these experiences. The existential presence of the experience happens in the consciousness of the viewer and therefore cannot be represented visually.

In my film works I use cinematic language to explore metaphors in the form of amorous relationships that deal with historically significant buildings and the underlying architectural and social ideas regarding the co-evolutionary relationship between inner microscopic psychological space and outer macroscopic built space. In doing so, I examine ghosts as carriers and messengers of unarticulated parts of history in order to reveal unthought ideas, examine and transform them, and apply them to the future.

My practice focuses more on contemplation than action. In today’s world, contemplation is challenging. It is often seen as passive acceptance of the status quo, while social and political activism is seen as a struggle for change. Nevertheless, I trust in the potential of contemplation as a form of engagement capable of creating something new through transformation.