ARTIST STATEMENT
I work primarily with photography. Not as a documentary tool, but also as a medium to provoke, construct, and question. I develop my practice through conceptual and performative image-making.I often stage scenes that unsettle, reframe, and confront how we perceive the body, identity, victims, and systems of power.
For me, photography is a medium for provoking questions rather than providing answers.
GROTESQUE
The grotesque appears frequently in my work, as a visual language and as well as a tool to provoke. I am drawn to scenes where beauty turns unsettling. I construct my images physically in front of the camera. What you see is materially present. I build surreal visions from raw materials. Animal remains often appear in my work as I explore the fragile boundary between human and animal.
The grotesque has deep roots in Central and Eastern Europe, shaped by our history, politics, and inherited absurdities. For me, it is not merely an aesthetic, but a way of seeing the world. It is a language that allows me to speak about violence, vulnerability, power, and decay – that’s why I return to it again and again.
ART AND SCIENCE
Science has always been close to me. It shaped the environment I grew up in, that’s how people around me explained the world and organized thought. For a long time, I kept my distance and chose art instead. As my practice evolved, I realized that art and science do not have to be in opposition.
My recent work incorporates scientific tools, especially microscopes. By merging scientific and artistic methodologies, I aim to challenge narratives about the body and power, anthropocentrism and posthumanism, and the unstable boundary between humans and animals. I seek a potent ground for reimagining how we understand ourselves and the systems we create.
DESTRUCTION
Photography is often driven by ideals of perfection – smooth surfaces, polished bodies, retouching, and artificial beauty. I deliberately distance myself from this tradition. My work embraces the ugly, the disturbing, the broken. I am interested in images that resist consumption and comfort. I often destroy my own work, physically intervene in it, or allow decay and damage to become part of the final image.
