My practice explores human experiences and how they inhabit our bodies despite different space and time. I create visual presentations to investigate the human body and its surroundings as a reflection of our psyche. With an interdisciplinary approach, my installations often span several media, including sculpture, photography, video, sound, text, and performance. By employing my body and mind as an experiential interface, I look into the subjects of cultural identities, struggles, correlated relationships between our physicality and psychology, and the resemblance between art making and manufacturing in social content.
Using personal experience and observations as my foundation, I look into human experiences shared among many of us, such as memories, alienation, trauma, absurdity, love, and adaption. Inspired by mountain climbing, I embed landscape as a starting point and as a conclusion for everything. As a daughter of a former bounded-leather manufacturer, I have been influenced by the production process, physical labor, post-industrial environment, and alteration of materials. My immigration to the US and the loss of my husband due to a long battle with cancer also shifted my perspectives on life and creation.
My work often considers a medical gaze on myself as an illustration of a human being: a seemingly complete but fragile body, an exploration between neuroscience and fiction, a hint of existentialism over the ephemeral monuments. I employ projections and mirrored images—fragments to query and reconstruct a perspective between the imaginary and the reality we believe in. Through reinterpretation and modification of materials and objects, I survey the possibilities of transforming abstract experiences into visual or performative representations.