CAPTURING THE EMOTIONAL BODY
EXPERIMENTING THE THEATRICAL SPACE
My work explores the emotional body — the body as a place where vulnerability, tension, damage and tenderness can become visible. Through photography and sculpture, I create figures that seem to inhabit an in-between state: exposed yet withdrawn, fragile yet resistant, familiar yet difficult to fully read.
My photographs are staged, but I am not interested in constructing narratives. I look for images with intensity rather than intention: images that suggest something has happened, or is about to happen, without explaining what. Bodies, gestures, materials, clothing and light become carriers of emotion. The theatrical is present, but stripped of plot and dramatic climax.
Beauty plays an important role in this work, but not as an end in itself. I am interested in the tension between beauty and unease, attraction and vulnerability. What I think of as a form of soft tragedy emerges within that tension: something fragile and unsettling, but never overwhelming. The image can offer a space for attention, contemplation and perhaps a subtle form of solace.
My sculptures continue this investigation through matter. Heads and bodies appear damaged, unfinished, altered or partially obscured. Cracks, rough surfaces and fragile materials are not simply signs of destruction; they become part of the emotional presence of the figure. Photography and sculpture therefore increasingly belong to the same practice: different ways of investigating how a body can hold an inner state.
Before focusing on visual art, I worked for more than twenty years as a theatre director and set designer. That background remains present in the way I construct an image and think about bodies, space, light and material. Moving towards photography and sculpture felt less like leaving theatre than returning to its most elementary components — the body, the space, the material and the gaze.
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