ABOUT
I have never perceived the world only at its surface. Even as a child, I stopped at the small things others passed without noticing. What interested me most was what lay behind them.
Growing up in an intercultural family, I learned early to move between different cultural worlds and developed a sensitivity to what may connect seemingly contradictory realities. This search first led me to Translation Studies, where I specialised in legal translation, and later to teaching German Studies and Intercultural Communication at universities in China and Germany. An MA in Expressive Arts Therapy expanded my understanding of translation further—from inner experience to outer expression and between different artistic forms. Along the way, translation grew from a linguistic practice into a broader way of approaching a question that continues to shape my work: How can something taken for granted in one reality become perceptible in another?
My works often begin with everyday objects, places, bodily experiences or overlooked details. I listen, observe and ask questions, taking my first perception apart and rearranging its pieces until something new appears beneath it. My artistic language is slow, investigative and intermedial. I do not begin with a fixed medium; the form emerges from what I find.
I am particularly interested in translating human experience into other systems of meaning. I borrow languages, structures and systems from outside art and follow their internal logic and expectations. Precision meets quiet absurdity; familiar realities are shifted just far enough to become visible anew.
As a method of artistic research, translation allows me to move between experience and form, the individual and the universal, the visible and what lies beneath. The deeper I follow an experience through this process, the more interested I become in the point at which it ceases to be mine alone: Where does the “I” end, and where does the “we” begin? My art is an attempt to open a door to a place where, beyond visible differences, we may encounter a shared reality.