| Statement |
While I photograph the world, I am equally drawn to the images that precede it, crowd it, or persist within it: discarded vernacular photographs, outdated advertisements, artefacts of the medium, as well as digital images, web spaces, and images generated or co-constructed with artificial intelligence. Whether found, reworked, or produced, images form a field of inquiry through which I examine their production, circulation, exhaustion, and hold on our imaginaries. Their proliferation feeds a cultural repetition in which forms, narratives, and representations endlessly recur.
Working with vernacular archives, reactivated cultural clichés, and hybrid processes combining digital negatives, analogue photography, alternative techniques, and plant-based dyes, my practice engages the systems of representation that shape our relationship to reality. It also considers how images contribute to the construction of identity—individual, collective, and transgenerational, or computational—in relation to inherited narratives and cultural norms. Through photomontage, installation, photography, moving images, and web-based works, I develop forms where memory, fiction, and materiality intersect. In response to the proliferation of images, I employ strategies of détournement, reinterpretation, and reuse, advancing an ecology of images attentive to their uses and future trajectories. What interests me is what images do over time—how they persist, transform, and continue to shape how we see.
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