I find myself surrounded by images.
Through my work I analyze what this phenomenon means to me.
What’s the consequence of being constantly confronted with all this imagery?
Furthermore, what’s the relationship between reality and fiction and does this affect the interpretation of images?
Sometimes it seems to me that reality is only something I observe from a distance, through a fictional window, often a screen.
In this sense, the screen becomes a Romantic symbol of the window to the outside world as known from art history. This situation is part of my motivation to search for a new meaning through the construction of my own images.
I select and re-organize images as part of my working method. I analyze elements that attract or repulse me. My aim is to translate thought into imagery and vise versa.
The connection with the original context is merely symbolic from the moment I begin the actual work. I use what I find relevant in order to represent my own thoughts about societal behavior, art history or the act of painting itself.
The consequence of watching all this imagery is a natural priority, a selection of what I find useful. In this sense, it is important to consider the influence of cut and paste as a social phenomenon in order to understand the work.
The work is basically about the difficulty of deciding when offer and options are endless.
I transform situations by fitting them into a new constructed context.
Through my work, I search for some sort of pause, a break from reality.
The paintings are new stills, new representations, and obviously, new fiction.
The work must be simple in order to be complex.
A new meaning is created from the moment the original imagery becomes my own through the act of painting it.