Artist Statement

In my work, I challenge traditional concepts of corporeality, exploring how the human body is interpreted and classified in fields like fashion, medicine, and politics. My involvement with the standardization of the human body stems from my own experience with a scoliosis diagnosis. The associated measurement and optimization procedures, orthoses and physiotherapy led to an intensive preoccupation with the human body. Instead of the beautiful or classical representation of the human form, I am more interested in the edges of acceptability and representability. In terms of content, anecdotes on the interpretation or classification of the human body from areas such as medicine, fashion or culture form the starting point for my sculptures and installations. The materials I use, such as plaster, wax, fabric and medical aids as well as casting techniques, are also borrowed from medicine.

Influenced by my personal experience, I combine physiotherapeutic and sculptural techniques in order to question the classical images of corporeality. I treat the body as a malleable object that is influenced, changed or restricted by external pressures - whether physical or social. My sculptures show abstracted body fragments that suggest the human body but do not clearly define it.

By combining fragmented bodies and staged medical aids, I create new body (images) that suggest movement but are restricted by their mechanical limitations and rigid form. The interaction between body and material plays a central role, whereby the boundary between the living, organic body and the cold, functional material is fluid.