Series

Me and the devil

People will come and will leave your life. Some might be passers by, some might be lessons, some might stay. The one that will always be with you is yourself. In the “Me and the devil” series I explore how one can be fascinated by another and the evolution of that connection. People that hurt us are not necessarily bad, but they seem that way at the moment. The same way as we place someone on a pedestal when they fascinate us, the same way we see them as cruel when they hurt us. Every new relationship has two potential outcomes which we have moderate control over. But the constant in our life is ourself, and we need to stay true and kind to them.

Creating this work was a self exploration, looking at how I interact with the people around me, how I build relationships and how i think of myself in different situations. I see it as a common individual experience, we see ourselves as the devil, the angel, the victim and the savior. I used greek statues as inspiration for my characters and placed them in an isolated space, similar to one’s mind, often the roles being played in our minds.

Wasted potential 2024

Marble statues are immortal, they surpass time and observe as we live, grow, change and evolve. Not only that, but they hold deep meaning, they convey history, spirituality, acts of courage, fulfilled love, broken love, everything we as humans wanted to preserve.

We are living in an individualistic world. It came from a place of healing, need for care, need for focus, need for becoming comfortable with your own self, but it’s limiting us to only that, to the forever act of perfecting ourselves, our body, our mind, our spirit. It offers peace, rhythm, calm and comfort. And it makes it harder and harder to open our life up to others, for fear of not having the perfectly crafted balance disturbed.

So we become perfect marble statues, hard beautifully crafted shells, calm in a chaotic and ever moving world.

Through the “Wasted potential” series, I imagine perfect beings, static in nature, being surrounded by life and growth, peacefully existing forever undisturbed, forever as their current state, cold, hard.

The colour of war 2021

Inspired by Svetlana Alexievich’s novel “The unwomanly face of war” I created a series of portraits from different key paragraphs in the book, illustrating the pain, fear and dissociation people felt during war times and added a parallel portrait of the same person imagine what their face might have looked like in a world of peace. I hope the viewer is able to create an entire life for them during peace time, imaging what would they have done, studied, loved, how they would have lived in a world where a few powerful men decide to play god at the expense of innocent lives