I reject reality, reacting to urbanity and natural landscapes without delivering them. I reverse-engineer my architectural background, often working in abandoned industrial sites, finding solace in the end-of-life of buildings and the silence of urban ruins drawing from urban surfaces, torn paper, cardboard, package labels and found objects as a critique of the extractive consumption of both the urban and the natural. In the same way I paint with musicians, dancers and poets, the collage medium expresses that multiplicity of forms to convey the same narrative. I weave together fragments of street culture, vandalism, advertising and everyday packing materials alongside references to the natural environment, enquiring into the exploitation of the non-human and the autophagy of urban realms through hyper-commodification of historical cities like Berlin or Rome in an increasingly diasporic and touristic world.
Fast nature, fast art, fast fashion, fast culture.