This artist produces photo-works that locate the incongruities hidden within our everyday experience.
Describe your workspace to us.
My workspace is nomadic. I am always interested in transitions, immediate spaces and transformation of these (even when it comes to my own workspace). I want to transform workspaces into cake shops and oyster farms, airports into holiday resorts, hotel rooms into galleries, galleries into spas.
What are the best and worst aspects of what you do?
I am always having fun while I work. Let play become joy, joy become work, work become play, as Johannes Itten wrote in his Bauhaus manifesto.Sometimes I have to drink crazy amounts of coffee, but nothing worse than that.
What’s the biggest challenge of working in the way that you do?
I never know what will be the next step or next project.
How do you start a new project and how do you know when to stop?
I get excited about things very easily. I guess I start a new project when I am exited about a particular idea long enough to know that I can commit to it. Sometimes it feels there is no definite end point and ideas often merge together, so I always have to more or less stop myself consciously, but I always try to finish things I start. I believe getting things done is very important.
If you weren’t a visual artist, what would you be?
When I was young I wanted to be a stewardess. When I got older I wanted to be an architect, but I was never courageous enough to become one. Architects are like superheroes for me. Then again, sometimes I wanted to be a fat cat. Or a flying carpet. But I am very happy with what I am.
What are you working on right now?
I am making an object (let's call it a coffee table), which is a miniature representation of Villa Malaparte shown in film Le Mepris by Jean-LucGodard from 1963. Villa Malaparte is located on the Capri island in Italy and is one of the best examples of modern Italian architecture. I am building an indoor waterfall with Nicholas Gardner, who is an amazing furniture designer and recent Design Products graduate from the RCA. I am also preparing to shoot some editorial work for POP magazine with my friend and collaborator Kit Shyrixina. Alongside this, I have the occasional graphic design job and some silly things that might become a project.
What’s next for you?
The desert. I've recently been obsessed with the idea of the desert. Its aesthetic, geographic, politic, metaphoric values. We should rediscover the beauty of the desert, as Rem Koolhaas suggested a while ago.
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