My artistic practice is founded on an interest in suburban artefacts, using them as a means to explore themes of memory, identity, and cultural significance. In areas lacking cultural heritage and a sense of community, I find third spaces, like a petrol station or a supermarket, become repositories of deep meaning. My work aims to highlight these subtle yet significant places, working with my hometown as a medium. Hauntology, anachronistic technology and a fantasy of escape shape the atmosphere of my work, revealing the quiet strangeness embedded in everyday spaces.
Storytelling is fundamental to my practice, providing a framework through which I can explore the layers of personal and collective experience, revealing the unseen connections between the past and present.
Recontextualizing commercial and consumerist imagery within my films and a gallery setting, I invite viewers to perceive signs and symbols not merely as directives but as artefacts. Throughout my practice, I question whether the original commercial intentions of these objects can be fully erased or if residual meanings persist, prompting a dialogue on the fluidity of context in shaping our understanding of everyday symbols.
Predominantly working as a filmmaker, I assemble collected and archival images, sounds, pieces of music, and fragments of my own writing, integrating them into narratives that reflect my personal experiences. In recent projects such as 'Gossip is Ancestral', I integrated personal anecdotes, archival materials, and speculative fiction to highlight the ordinary's significance in shaping our collective consciousness.
Gossip is Ancestral, 2025
