Artist statement

I believe that every place we abandon, whether it's a living room or an entire landscape, carries stories in which change and loss play a role. As a visual artist, I create poetic experiences of these abandoned places, to honor and give meaning to the memories and stories we have stored there.

Abandoned houses, shops, factories, and natural areas are often forgotten and neglected once they loose their intended function. Yet, it is precisely these spaces that carry stories, memories, and meanings of great value to local communities. Created as an uncontrolled collage of memories and stories, the reality in these spaces is stranger than fiction. My explorations of these abandoned places in buildings and the landscape are the breeding ground for all my work.

I store the observations I gather here in an archive, to later translate into models. I work from spaces that are about to, or often have already disappeared, precisely because their absence forces me to rely on subjective memories. I am not interested in a faithful imitation of the original architecture, but in the way our bodies and minds have preserved that place. My models create a new kind of space: an autonomous translation of the original, in which distorted memories, forgotten details, and invented additions are equally valuable.

From these models, photographic works and, on location, spatial objects emerge. By allowing a vanished space to be reincarnated and migrated to a new space and a new time, something that once was real, transforms into a newborn stranger, seeking new meaning in the new context and itself giving new meaning to the new location. An object, a space, is created, whose use and meaning are determined by who enters it. By presenting the familiar as fiction, space is created for reflection, multiple perspectives, and individual interpretation.