In your artist statement, you describe your practice as investigating the methodology of problem solving through artistic production, how to create an image of solution through artistic endeavour. Can you tell us more about this questioning? 

I was once told that artists, unlike designers, create their own creative problems. I find this statement quite valuable, and I believe in it. 

Visual artists are entitled to pursue any subject matter or methodology to point out the message that they want to transfer or communicate through artistic production. Therefore, through my artistic practice, I attempt to convey issues that may require asking questions as in analytical problem solving. Through the creative process, sometimes I attempt to point out answers, solutions, and I try to keep them relevant to the audience. 

In 2018, you have participated in the residency Thematic Residencies: Rural Tendencies Tested, Im de Ruimte and Re(union) Lisbon in Ghent, Belgium. Can you talk a bit about this experience. How did it make a contribution to your practice?

 It was transcending, really. I never had tried using my body for communicating visually in the professional matter. At the residency, all of the participants were performance artists. So, it ended up being an opportunity for me to discover and find out about performance art by participating in the workshops and rehearsals. Of course, it was just a starting point to become curious about performance art through practice. I appreciate Cuerpos Limites project (Sofie Dubs, Fabio Bergamaschi) and other participants for helping me discover and grow.

Currently you’re working on the project; Sleeping as a Performative Process, that you created under the influence of performance art. In what ways does it relate to performance art? What ideas are you aiming to explore in this work?

After we worked together with Sofie (Dubs) and Fabio (Bergamaschi), it occurred to me that my own body is in constant communication with me, but I did not know how to read it correctly. Working with them made me aware of this phenomenon, and a reccurring pattern for wanting to sleep in psychologically challenging situations was what inspired me starting to research this. As in physical weariness, I consider sleeping as a form of rest from thinking even though the brain does not stop working. Therefore, I take sleeping as a part of the daily performative process and record my dreams, physical activity while sleeping.

Through these inputs, I try to come up with an alphabet to communicate on how mind and body perform during the sleeping state. The subconscious, dream and mind are highly charged topics in both neuroscience and psychology community. Still, as a visual artist, I try to read visuals that my body and brain produce along the process. It is pretty much how I define my part as an artist to support the scientific community. As I develop this alphabet bigger, I intend to collaborate with other professionals of interest to see whether if this can be something.

Who inspires you?

I am inspired by abstract art lately, although David Hockney will be my eternal inspiration. Although most of my selected works are photographic ones, I am mostly influenced by painters like Jorinde Voigt, Hayal Pozanti. Recently, I have met with Lasse Juuti and Jurgis Tarabilda both young, but super inspiring people.