Artist Statement
“We use the word love so carelessly that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything.” Diane Ackerman
My practice traces love as something we perform, archive, and negotiate—through bodies, language, and shared rituals.
I am driven by a search to understand the ways of loving, approaching love as a cultural and historical continuum while keeping my focus on how it is practiced, coded, and transformed in the present.
Working with text and installation, I collect testimonies, letters, and objects that carry the residue of intimacy —writing histories with the words of others— then recompose them into visual narratives where humor and irony hold space for tenderness and contradiction.
I often build participatory formats in which affection shifts from a private sensation to a shared encounter, turning individual and collective memories into sites of dialogue. Rather than presenting romance as an ideal, these works approach it as a social script shaped by time, place, and language, where meaning is co-produced and where pleasure, loss, and belonging can be articulated otherwise.
I see my practice as a communicative bridge and a careful container: a space where individual memories and collective narratives of love can be reimagined as forms of connection and resistance.