“Notes”. Pen on paper. A4. 2023

Bio: I was born in Vienna, Austria, and now live in London. I hold master’s degrees in Fine Art, Philosophy, and Economics, and have shown my work internationally (e.g. Georg Kargl Fine Arts (Austria), Gallery Asbæk/AAC (Denmark), Razklon Gallery (Bulgaria), and at Frieze London (UK)). My work was in the 2019 Lagos Biennial, and I got Arts Council England funding as collaborative duo Duck & Rabbit Projects with Arlene Wandera for a project in Johannesburg. In 2021, my 16mm film “For Agnes & The Sea (No.220)” was shortlisted by the François Schneider Foundation, and in 2022, “Lagos” was screened at Experimental Film East Anglia. In 2023 and 2024, I made the short film “双葉物語 (Futaba Story)” on the basis of material shot in Futaba and Ono, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. In 2024, I was selected to show a project at the 2024 Ghettobiennale in Jacmel, Haiti, which is sadly still pending due to local political upheaval. Later in the year I showed solo at Siddhartha Art Gallery in Kathmandu, Nepal, at the end of a residency.

I consider my practice a large, overarching phenomenological project that asks whether in addition to our established modes of perceiving in-the-world phenomena there exists a realm of “conceptual senses” that allows for a different form of perception. I am particularly interested in the thresholds where different modes rub against each other and break; for example, where visual perception turns into language or other forms of conceptual manifestation that arguably lie at the fringes of our phenomenal experience. It is my belief that art creates non-verbal knowledge. I am also fascinated by the cognitive ramifications of Artificial Intelligence, especially neural network-based Machine Learning in this context.