In my work I explore what is left of us when the omnipresent, mass media dictated, overstimulating flooding of information and images is finally interrupted – the moment we close our eyes.
In today’s increasingly transparent society our dreams remain an indestructible space for privacy. Even in their most unsignificant volatile forms, our dreams assure us a safe moment for our innocent but also darkest desires, fears, aspirations and prejudices in all their radicalness.
I try to capture the people in my work the way I see them in my dreams. In those fleeting, transcendent, at times mystical, other times profane, still profound encounters.
During this process, I confront myself and the viewer with questions like:
What has our dreaming presumption to do with the actual reality of the dreamed of individual? And what does that say about the dreamer? How do our nighttime dreams which mostly wander through the subconscious processing of past events differ from our daydreams which are mostly directed to the future in the shape of desires, plans, hopes?
How can we stay real, calm or even sane in a world that is trying to keep us away from dreaming, but constantly bombs us with images, (mis-)information and everything else to come?
The inner music of things and people only sounds when you close your eyes.
My paintings are a kind of closing your eyes.
