Statement
Having moved from one culture to another and lived through cultural and language adaptations, I am interested in the issue of transience and how it relates to the notions of identity, belonging, and living in a society of global and technological developments. Over the last ten years I have been working with inflatable objects exploring these concerns through clothing and habitation. In contrast to the stable mass of monumental sculpture and architecture, my costumes and structures are air-filled, mobile and concerned with places and people that activate them. Incorporating materials such as rubber latex, polyvinyl, polyurethane, reversible metallic foil, fabrics, fans and solar panels, I harness technology to build intimate yet paradoxically public experiences, and fashion them based on function and the idea of travel of the contemporary nomad and the displaced.
In my artwork I share the 1960’s avant-garde’s desire to create alternative propositions for living explored in the works of such architectural groups as Archigram (UK), Utopie (France), Haus-Rucker-Co and Coop Himmelb(l)au (Austria). As early as the '60s, these architectural groups were addressing the question of global vision and the relation between environment and technology, issues that remain central to the discussion about climate change at the present time.
My artwork is inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s concept of Synergetics, which is a system of thinking that encompasses a multi-faceted approach towards life and design, seen not as a fragmented concept applied to various professional practices but as a creative process that lies at the heart of any human activity. I am deeply concerned with the integrity of materials, processes and ideas and make objects that reflect on both, the most fundamental human need for safety and well-being, as well as the growing complexities of being an individual in the increased intensity of global communication and simultaneity.