Raised and educated in the former GDR and living in the UK since 1992, my work is shaped by the political systems and social changes that have defined different stages of my life.
Since 2015, my practice has developed through research-based work using photography, sculpture and archival materials. Early projects focused on control, propaganda and the emotional impact of living under restrictive systems. Working with materials from personal and public archives, I altered and reconfigured them to explore how meaning is constructed, controlled and remembered.
More recently, my practice has expanded to include a different approach to photography. In One Photograph, I work with a single existing image, placing it repeatedly into changing environments. Through light, water, vegetation and shifting viewpoints, the image encounters conditions that alter how it appears and is understood.
Across these different strands, I explore how meaning changes through the ways objects and images are presented, encountered and transformed. My archival work engages with the traces of political and social systems, while my more recent photographic work allows environmental conditions to shape how an image is seen. Both involve returning to something that already exists and discovering what becomes possible when the conditions around it change.