Photography
I am more interested in creating an imaginary world than in merely reproducing or documenting reality. Yet my work remains a form of street photography, and what appears in my images is often closer to reality than it might seem at first glance.
I do not feel bound to any single photographic or printing technique. Over the years, I have explored a wide range of processes, from historical methods such as pinhole photography and gum printing to contemporary digital photography and printing—often combining old and new techniques within the same work.
Video
Viewing an image always unfolds through time, since no picture can be fully grasped in a single glance. Creating a sequence—a film—is a way of shaping and organizing this movement through time, while also allowing me to work with the interplay of image and sound. Through memory, individual scenes and the emotions they evoke merge into a larger experience, like a walk through an exhibition. In this process, two-dimensional photographs are transformed into a three-dimensional perceptual space. A further development of this idea is the integration of virtual three-dimensional video environments into this memory-based spatial experience.
VR / MR Experience
Virtual reality represents the natural evolution—and, for now, the furthest stage—of my research into materials and the transformation of photographic imagery into a new, almost tactile world. My work begins with photographic images abstracted from their original context and seeks to reconfigure them into a new form of material presence. This underlying idea has guided all the stages of my artistic exploration: using photographic abstraction as a means toward a new kind of “materialization.”
Music plays an essential role in deepening the immersive quality of the experience. Three-dimensional video marked an important step in this direction, followed by 360-degree stereoscopic environments. Virtual reality currently represents the most advanced frontier of this research, offering the possibility not simply of observing an artwork, but of experiencing the sensation of being inside it.