Artist Statement

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They are smooth as well as uneven, soft as well as hard, simple as well as exuberant. In my sculptural and installative works I use both natural as well as artificial materials, whereby the plastic polyurethane foam plays a central role. The objects create an uncertainty as to whether they are organically grown or highly technically produced. Their hybrid appearance opens up a visual language between artificial and alive, alluring and bizarre. Thus they become creatures of an unknown science fiction world.

The starting point of these works is the exploration of human´s creative and inventive endevours in the context of technological developments. My focus lies on the question of a synthetic existence, which I explore both critically and humorously. I am interested in the idea of the artificial creation of life and its controllability. By means of exaggeration, distortion and alienation I create a whimsical moment in my sculptures, which manifests their dystopian potential. I understand humor as a response to an attitude that thinks to have everything in hand. In this sense, my work adresses ecological, biotechnological as well as feminist and mythological contexts.

 

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