ART FOR LIFE

Most of all, my work is a celebration of the creative life force and vital power within us human beings, a creative force that really connects all of life.

Whichever subject I might should choose to talk about, on the one side, I am driven by my believe in the communication through body and its physicality. – the immediacy of our presence as performer and the knowing that everything that lives within us speaks.

While the human body and its visceral poetry remain at the centre of my work, I cherish the alchemy between different disciplines, myself moving between dance/performance + film/photography. My work is a celebration of the life force within us human beings and it is often inspired by mythology, Buddhism and our intrinsic connection to nature.

I love visual composition and to design space, to let a performance space become a sensorial universe – be it in a black box or alternative space, at times using video or, generally, designing with light – and to create visually through the medium of film and video.

In my performative work, my wish that action is informed, driven by a certain necessity and urgency; I believe that movement – in/from whichever language – should be informed by and born out of something that we wish to express. Performances are like a journey we go on and invite an audience to come along onto. I believe that on this journey magic can happen – magic that has the power to bring empowerment, beauty, transformation into this life.

I am a maker with a strong connection to the kinetic and sensorial, cherishing the poetic power of the human body and movement. This sensorial perception influences my interaction with the world and my work.

Be it through image, film or performance, I want to share ‘experiences’ and a journey; the theme of Catharsis and Rite of Passage, transformative and alchemical processes, key elements in my work.

Thematically, these last years, processes of Life and Death, life cycles, the theme of Rite of Passage and Catharsis, aspects around human behaviour as well as stories and mythology as archetypal expression of our psychology have been inspiring and central to my work.

I am inspired by cross-pollination and creative interdisciplinary work, by seeing different fields nurture one another; seeing how science and art, working together, have the power to create wonder, to find and inspire new ways. I love to play with multiple layers, to journey between the narrative / conceptual and the abstract / sensorial. Working with visual art and the medium of film opens up dimension that allows me to merge the physical / sensorial with the visual to create something entirely new. A very interesting place of exploration is for me where performance + film meet and to work with the medium of video and installation.

My work is all about poetry, the dimension of our soul and humanity.

My practice is influenced by a love for the poetic and the spiritual and mystic dimension of life.

My desire is to create work that can inspire and enrich others, uplift our spirit.

This is my political act: to create work that is embracing life and life affirming.