Artist Statement
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The core of my work explores the deep relationship between the human body and its unique expression and observation of emotions. Importance is laid on the reconnection to our emotionality and intuition, one’s inner physical sensations that express the response to outer circumstances, as well as manifestations of trauma and unconscious information.
Working increasingly with painful emotions and memories, I enforce a healing process by scratching deeply underneath the surface to finally open up to absolute vulnerability, leading my path back to the exploration of grief and death and the origins and development of shame.
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Finding purity in the nude body, I enhance the emotional vulnerability by embracing the comfort of my own skin and promoting its innocence against all social stigmas, to push further into the acceptance of living in our own bodies and shift the lines of its judgemental perception.
The research process of finding truth in experience rather than intellectualisation is becoming a meditative self-practice intertwined with performative elements, which is testing my body’s limits and building mental resilience.
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Printmaking as a medium allows me to utilise its slowness to transfer my energy into something physical. I use my body as a tool and not just a reference, to incorporate its touch and movement, as well as the practice of incorporating hand writing, as an important part alongside the visual outcome of the artwork. I am letting the medium come alive and subsequently decay, by scratching into it, into a deeper surface to unfold its vulnerability, alongside mine.
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The core of my work explores the deep relationship between the human body and its unique expression and observation of emotions. Importance is laid on the reconnection to our emotionality and intuition, one’s inner physical sensations that express the response to outer circumstances, as well as manifestations of trauma and unconscious information.
Working increasingly with painful emotions and memories, I enforce a healing process by scratching deeply underneath the surface to finally open up to absolute vulnerability, leading my path back to the exploration of grief and death and the origins and development of shame.
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Finding purity in the nude body, I enhance the emotional vulnerability by embracing the comfort of my own skin and promoting its innocence against all social stigmas, to push further into the acceptance of living in our own bodies and shift the lines of its judgemental perception.
The research process of finding truth in experience rather than intellectualisation is becoming a meditative self-practice intertwined with performative elements, which is testing my body’s limits and building mental resilience.
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Printmaking as a medium allows me to utilise its slowness to transfer my energy into something physical. I use my body as a tool and not just a reference, to incorporate its touch and movement, as well as the practice of incorporating hand writing, as an important part alongside the visual outcome of the artwork. I am letting the medium come alive and subsequently decay, by scratching into it, into a deeper surface to unfold its vulnerability, alongside mine.