ARTIST STATEMENT
The camera has the power to make us see the familiar as strange, and the strange as familiar.
– John Berger
My practice, grounded in conceptual approaches to lens‑based media, begins at this moment of shift. It explores what becomes visible when order and meaning begin to transform, and the relation between the familiar and the unfamiliar changes.
Research, documentation, constructed imagery, and photographic intervention are interwoven elements of my approach. I am interested in how history, usage, and cultural conditions are inscribed in things and places – and how these traces can be made perceptible through images.
Many of my projects evolve within transcultural contexts. Following earlier works on recent German history, I have been working in India since 2009 and more recently in Serbia, examining spaces where different historical experiences, forms of knowledge, and aesthetic orders intersect. I seek ways to visualize these complex relations – within the image, the process, and the exchange it generates.
My work moves between documentation and construction. I understand photography as a tool for examining cultural dynamics, identities, and concepts of reality – both familiar and unfamiliar.