My artistic practice is rooted in an interest in the interplay between personal memory and popular culture. My method is appropriation: I borrow techniques from design and media, work with found photographs, create collages, and translate them into painting. I’m drawn to various forms of distortion—both analog and digital—as well as to the aesthetics of amateur photography, which I use as a way to explore painterly language.

 

In my work, I strive to deconstruct the visual language of advertising from within—through glitches, fading, erasure, and deformation. It’s important for me to rethink the designer’s gaze and transform slick, polished imagery into a trace, a ghost. Through irony and kitsch, I explore ways of resisting trends and the manipulative nature of popular culture.

 

Working with figurative painting, I preserve a sense of recognizability and nostalgia. These images easily connect with the viewer, while also revealing the cultural mechanisms behind their popularity across generations.