Statement

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Working primarily with photography and book arts as a medium, tool, and language, my practice deals with themes of identity as a way to understand my own existence. Thinking of the personal microcosmos as representation of larger social, sexual and political issues, I examine notions of home, migration, and self-representation. Bending the concept of time – past, present and future – I create new possibilities and reinterpretations of my lived experiences within an atmosphere of uncertainty.

 

Drawing from personal history, rooted in otherness, the use of the personal and family archive is a constant in my work; paired with documentation of private space, and self portraits that convey emotions through mise-en-scène and performative actions that capture my states of mind. 

 

I understand the relation of photography to memory, exploring both the material nature of the image and image as material. Many of the resulting artworks have undergone interventions and transference to become something different from their origin, bridging the familiar with fiction. Conferred through the use of scans, manual intervention –drawing, painting, cutting–, the inclusion of poetic language and the written word –almost exclusively by hand–, and the rephotographing of photographic prints to create new images. As fragmented memory, the images are frequently tessellated, segmented, or cropped, either direct from shot or by modification.