ARTIST STATEMENT  

My work investigates how memory circulates across objects, species and urban environments — an ecology of memory in which remembrance is not solely a human prerogative but a distributed, interspecies value. 

I begin with historical postcards, that once functioned much like today’s Instagram. Mass-produced and widely circulated, they carried personal narratives across continents, only to later disappear in cardboard boxes on flea markets, private attics and antique stores. I treat these postcards like archives of everyday life — fragments that have survived great wars, departures, natural catastrophes and the erosion of private histories. By painting animals and plants onto these images, I interfere with the historical photograph and revise its context. This disruption activates the postcard anew. The animals become mediators of memory: they enter the past as agents who reopen it, reanimating personal and collective traces that might otherwise disappear. This is a form of upcycled memory — bringing forgotten materials and private histories into a new cycle of meaning.

My artistic approach draws from surrealist strategies of collision and playful dissonance. I enjoy working within the constraints of a preset environment, inserting unexpected elements that appear to belong and yet subtly destabilize the viewer’s perception. This logic continues in my large-format watercolors, collages and drawings, where wild animals wander through abandoned houses and fading industrial zones. Here they act as agents of reclaiming, stepping into human-made environments and restoring them to the living fabric of the city. These places, often perceived as empty, become ecosystems in transition. The tension between the anthropogenic and the organic arises questions: How much nature can a city tolerate? What happens when the unpredictable suddenly comes closer?

Together, these bodies of work construct a continuous narrative: from the intimate recovery of personal histories embedded in postcards to the reclaiming of once inhabited urban spaces. I examine ideas of heritage and explore how memory migrates and regenerates — how it survives not only in humans, but between species, images, and landscapes.