Office parks after work, new housing estates before they are inhabited and seaside resorts in the winter. In my work as a visual artist and photographer I explore the urban interstices of the post-war ideal of feasibility. What do these places tell us about ourselves? About our collective fantasies?
The places I photograph manifest themselves as paradoxical riddles in our landscape. Still imbued with utopian thoughts, but at the same time alienating, absurd and gloomy. I photograph these places at moments when their reason for existence is temporarily suspended. Without users, these places hang in that undefined area between promise and reality. Between what we wanted and what we got.
My final work manifests itself in various forms – photo books, installations, sometimes films and performances – but always in relation to the exhibition context. "In-between space" is not only the subject of my work, but also describes the space that I explore in my working method and presentations. The tension between the concrete and the abstract in my images, the dialogue between the physical and represented spaces in my presentations and the space that arises between two different disciplines or visions in collaborations.
