THE POEMS

After 150 years of psychology, the Unconscious remains as vague and powerful as the Gods it has emancipated itself from. Some images have the power to open these doors, trigger emotions and unlock memories. I call these images POEMS.

I photograph at night to explore the limits of depiction. Rather than exploring stories, a place or a person, I hijack and transform the external reality, to paint a reality beyond time and space: that of the unconscious. What drives us? What timeless archetypes lay at the bottom of our understanding of the world? Like Goethe’s Faust, I pursue „whatever holds the world together in its inmost folds“.

I want to create pictures that are inaccessible to the rational mind, compelling the viewer to turn to their own memories and feelings. Thus I call my photographs POEMS .

Without excessive materials or digital effects, I combine the techniques of street and staged photography to create images that sit between painting, film and theatre. Transferring this quality to the presentation of my work, I create site-specific installations using a variety of formats from wallpaper to video to create an experience in which reality becomes fluid and visitors can walk through images into an inner space.