My works bear witness to a bodily tension, agency, and urgency. Through a somatic lens, I investigate the scars and symptoms of a capitalist and patriarchal historiography.

In doing so, I address and question both scientific-medical and mythical narratives surrounding the body, its (dis)functions and relationships to its environment. In reformulating these narratives, I ask for vulnerability to be understood as a moment of empowerment. On both conceptual and materialaesthetic levels, I negotiate the permeability of bodies and engage with the processing of collective traumas of marginalized bodies — particularly those read as „female“ or „sick“ — and their emancipation.

My embodied practice, whose poetic language of form and material moves between a decided sensitivity and brutality, encompasses sculpture, installation, drawing, sound, text, and video performance.
The often expansive and multi-sensory works echo the presence of my own body and experience, which is the starting point for every conceptual and theoretical exploration. Through the use of sound and heat, among others, I seek to touch the nervous system in order to reveal the polyphonic layers of my research. My works do not exist in isolation but demand a radical presence and relationality.

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