How do our senses communicate with the skin of the Earth?

My work takes you on a sensitive and poetic journey where reality becomes abstract and abstraction becomes reality. Through meticulous observations, fieldwork, and research, as an interdisciplinary artist, I feel the urge to sensitize with my environment to explore what it could mean to live with and as part of nature, being convinced that we need to listen to what the Earth is telling us.

Through my artistic practice I am researching different forms of symbiotic and sensorial interactions to explore the multiplicity of ways in which I can work with the landscape, scientific and vernacular knowledge, and my body as a research instrument. I focus on inter–sensorial relationships of ecological materials and their perceptive meaning as well as transformative power in the digital and physical worlds. Therefore, I am investigating ecological as well as multi-sensorial methods to create circular strategies within the artistic creation process.

Sensorial attentiveness and stimulations play a decisive role in how humans relate to and finally care about themselves and the Earth. Nowadays, spaces are not defined by physicality anymore, as it seems almost everything is captured online and perceived digitally. How does this shift influence our interaction with the environment? I want to give more attention to our sensorial interactions to change our perception, language and behaviours in regard to how we interact with the planet. Instead of relying on the fast path of growth, mass production/consumption and the destructive use of resources, we need to focus on a more sensitive, ecological, and circular approach towards life. A nature-centric and circular understanding of the time we live in is needed to sense back essential needs and lost priorities.

Being seduced to listen, to touch or to smell can lead to new understandings, feelings or imaginations. Art has the power of seduction and reaches our inner feelings, which can inspire change. I am convinced that Art provides a powerful way to bridge the interface of the inside and outside of life – between perception, emotions, thoughts and actions. Therefore, I approach my work as a mediator to unfold structures and perspectives we are not aware of; to make them tangible or imaginable.

For my performative works I sculpt with film, sound, movement and the tactile features of organic materials, for example, loam or acorns, and sound or language, going beyond the linguistic. I am framing my work as “Site-Soul-Sense” responsive, which means that the creation processes as well as the outcome respond to the current realities of the environment, to scientific and philosophical explorations, and to my own perception of the sensorial experiences, to discover places that may have not been visited before.

Through this way of exploring, researching, documenting, and archiving evolves a process of sensitizing and learning, leading to an ever-evolving  outcome, a created work in time and space that only becomes visible once different perspectives align and underlying structures are shared.