My work begins with listening.
With people, their voices, their gestures and their ways of being in the world. Every encounter asks for time, attention and a space in which trust can grow.
For many years, I have explored the relationship between images, bodies and the histories they carry.
I am drawn to voices and experiences that have remained at the margins of collective memory, and to the question of who is present, and who is missing, in the images a society makes of itself.
Working across photography, film, installation and performance, I move between artistic imagination, philosophical inquiry and encounters with people in different cultural and political contexts.
My early work emerged from questions of female identity and the overlooked histories of women philosophers. I placed my own body in front of the camera, inhabiting different roles, identities and ways of thinking. Photography became a space of transformation, where images could be both invented and questioned.
Having worked in advertising, I know how images are constructed, how they seduce and how they shape our perception of reality. I use this knowledge deliberately. Staging, costume, gesture and movement become ways of imagining other possibilities of seeing.
Over time, my work has increasingly unfolded through encounters with others. In Hong Kong, I worked with dancers whose movements carried the tensions of a changing political landscape. In London, I explored how survivors of the Shoah and their descendants carry memories across generations. In Kassel, women of the diaspora brought their mother tongues and their experiences of exile, everyday life and care into public space. More recently, encounters with women and men experiencing homelessness have opened new questions about vulnerability, dignity and the meaning of having a place in the world.
Throughout these projects, I have worked with philosophers and thinkers, and with women whose knowledge also lives in gestures, spoken stories, songs and the body.
What does it mean to have a place? In one’s own body, in a city, in history? Who has the freedom to speak, to move, to remember, to be seen and heard?
Many of my projects grow out of doing things together: thinking, listening, humming, dancing, being present. Photography rarely stands alone. Images enter into relationships with voices, music, movement, language and material.
Writing is part of this visual language. Sometimes a sentence opens an image. Sometimes it leaves a question that the image cannot answer.
The body remembers. A garment may carry the memory of a life. A gesture may become a form of resistance. A voice may travel beyond the person we see.
Different biographies can exist alongside one another without being measured against each other. Anger, humour, tenderness, contradiction and resistance remain part of the same human experience.
I increasingly think about the future through the smallest shared moments. When people take each other seriously, learn from one another and create together, something begins to take shape. A sound, an image, a gesture, a thought that did not exist before.
This work is my pulse. It keeps me curious, awake and alive. And it reminds me every day how much of the world lives within a single person, and how much future can grow from a single encounter.