PHILOSOPHY
"We can only think the world because we have already experienced it; it is through this experience that we have the idea…" -Immanuel Kant
"The Familiar is not necessarily known." - Hegel
Positioning myself as a stranger, a traveler and a wanderer, the motivation behind my works is to communicate and resolve shifts. Shifts are condition where my understanding of self and the world becomes destabilized from my experiences with the world I come in contact with. My works are dialogues that I set up to contest ones understanding of the familiar, questioning notions of being and belonging to resolve the shifts. Through my observations of the everyday context where I exist, I extract and abstract unnoticed phenomena to set up systems of inquiry to initiate dialogue that aim to refresh and reengage people’s perception of a world that may have grown mundane.
As a multidisciplinary artist who enjoys exploring communication potential of image and language in relation to media and architecture, my works often take form as media installations and intervention.
The familiar is not always known. My current interest is to investigate and contest our understanding of the familiar. My reflections are manifested through installation works in video and photographic works that present phenomena captured from a world forgotten, to destabilize momentarily, established position and relation we have of the world, with the interest to heighten ones sensitivity to the aesthetic and poetic occurrence of this obscured cosmos that co exits. And maybe reveal the stranger that one has grown to become in the familiar.
