ABOUT

My practice investigates perception as a constructed and regulated process rather than a neutral or continuous experience. Working across photography, collage, video, and installation, I approach images as systems that organize attention, produce legibility, and direct meaning along linear paths toward recognition and resolution. The work intervenes in these systems by interrupting the points at which perception is expected to cohere.

I work with scenes that resist narrative hierarchy or visual payoff: transitional environments, overlooked urban spaces, functional objects, and materially plain surfaces. These images do not announce significance and do not guide the viewer toward a stable focal point. Instead, they sustain conditions of delay and suspension. Formal strategies such as reflection, transparency, layering, and spatial misalignment complicate orientation and prevent perception from settling into a singular reading.

Alongside this photographic approach, I engage with found imagery—images engineered for clarity, persuasion, and the efficient transmission of desire or illustration. Through minimal but obtrusive interventions, I obstruct the points at which these images would ordinarily resolve. By covering sites of recognition or visual consolidation, the work disrupts the image’s communicative economy. These gestures are deliberately restrictive: they do not generate alternative meanings but limit the conditions under which meaning can be produced, exposing the dependency of images on uninterrupted access.

Across media, the practice resists transparency, immediacy, and interpretive fluency. Perception is slowed, redirected, or denied completion, remaining in states of partial access and structural tension. Rather than offering images as sites of clarity or affirmation, the work positions them as spaces where habitual modes of seeing falter, articulating a sustained refusal of dominant visual regimes predicated on efficiency, coherence, and productivity.

Exhibitions, events & publications

Education

Fotoacademie Amsterdam (graduated Conceptual Imagery, 2020-2022)
Nederlandse Academie voor Beeldcreatie / Fotovakschool (2018 – 2020)
Arts & Cultural Sciences (BA + MA)(2008-2012)