A love for chairs and knives

A love for objects, especially the daily and banal ones

Those we use in the theatre of everyday life

Because there, nothing is done for the first time

we keep repeating

and are caught in routines

Everyday objects as companions

gliding through our hands

asking for our intentions

while telling us who we are

My work revolves around anthropological questions and everyday culture. It's being caught in daily routines and the objects involved which I observe from a distance. Attracted to the unusual in these ordinary moments, I focus particularly on eating habits. My painting explores the relationship between eating tools and the human body. 

Routines and cultural norms are not self-evident to me. They are part of the theatre of everyday life in which we constantly repeat our behaviours. While rarely questioning our intentions behind familiar patterns. 

Though painting is my main practice, drawing, photography and video complement my search for image making. Oscillating between gestural and realistic moments, painting is making order in space and situations. Image making is about questioning what we really see in relation to what we expect and are used to seeing.