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In the landscape as my workspace, I gather images. I collect the vista, the overview, but even more so the edges of the landscape: the physical edges, the details, and those places where the physical appearance transitions into philosophical interpretation. Elements I pick up like small objects, the way I used to collect them in my pockets as a child. I fragment.
In essence, I search for silence, explanation, confusion, memory as recollection. Thereby, the landscape and the concept of landscape become research in themselves. What does it tell me? Am I a part of it? What do I long for from the landscape? What does it need from me?
With recordings from the visited space, I create a visual archive. By blending and distorting images, I distance myself from reality. Within this resulting field of tension, I investigate the emergence of a new metaphorical existence. Or rather, I attempt to create the impossible. The subject transforms into object; I render myself invisibly present as a catalyst.
In my work, I combine both analog and digital techniques, possibly supplemented by other media. The initial tactility thus takes shape anew within the two-dimensional image.
EDUCATION AND WORKSHOPS
2025-2026 Graphics screenprinting - Academie Gent
2025 Vertical Plane - Raymond Meeks - Akrotiri, Santorini, Greece
2020 Miho Kajioka - Akrotiri, Santorini, Greece
2002-2004 School of Arts / KASK - MFA in Visual Arts Photography, Ghent
2000-2002 School of Arts / KASK - BA in Visual Arts Photography, Ghent
RESIDENCY
2022 Dancing on the Edge of the Etna, Acqua, White Garage, Catania, Sicily, Italy
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS
(upcoming) 2026 I know the place and you don’t. Or maybe you do - Soft Prison - Leupegem
2024 Beneath the Waves there is Silence - Interpretaties - Ressegem
2022 Beneath the Waves there is Silence - Dancing on the Edge of the Etna - Nadine/NOdine - Brussels
2022 Beneath the Waves there is Silence - Dancing on the Edge of the Etna, Acqua - White Garage - Catania, Sicily, Italy
2021 Otosu, A Silent Harshness - Gent
2020 A Silent Hashness - Akrotiri, Santorini, Greece