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1. I find it interesting to open the refrigerator, or some other door—and tones of colour, for example, the mixture of 4 mg ultramarine blue, 0.5 mg cadmium red and 0.1 mg lemon yellow. Each colour has and conveys a specific vibrancy of relevance; it is of importance, for it is where communication begins.
2. When I stand by the sea at night and the waves come at me as if they want to take me away, breaking ominously and loudly—I get scared. In this fear, I feel the emergence of a place. This place conveys a sense of home, and this home is what concerns me; it is what I want to communicate.
3. There is only one place, and it is not chosen but is simply there; as with identity or authenticity, it is not something that I can deliberate.
4. I work in series, both in the atelier and in performances with other participants in front of an audience. In the last two years, I combined both paintings and performance in my exhibitions (at Galerie Schinken & Klötze in 2008 and K-Salon in 2009).
5. My interest lies in memory. How does our memory work? My memory is a dark and weightless something without contours into which everything falls and from which I somehow make a selection to create agglutinations of remembrances.
I love movies. They are like compressed lives in which I have to do nothing; amazing stories that unfold without me yet nonetheless with me, in my head and in front of me as flickering light.Movies in my head. I always remember the little scenes, the specific moments in the film. As if the film coalesces at this precise moment; as if, for a particular moment, the film sets the framework. In Antichrist, it's the light in the forest scene with the deer, fox and birds; in Opening Night, it's the buoyancy of Gina Rowland's hair; in Twenty-nine Palms, the desert sand.I want to capture the moments as they are: infinitely short and violent—violent in my head, because all the memories collapse together; they are a waterfall surrounded by blackness.
6. Our faces tell stories. Stories have faces. What is a face? A book—the title, your eyes; the script, your mouth.
7. The series of oil paintings entitled Artaud's Systemrefers to the Artaud's portrait drawings. I view this work as a discourse. Artaud's portraits form a system of signs, and thus an independent, communicable language. The portrait drawings by Artaud have a quirky, fascinating and brutal system of order. He digs into the paper with his pencils to locate the lines behind/in the faces. Artaud pulls the lines out into the open like pus sores; he prods at solid ground and reveals the complex structure of the psyche of those opposite him. If it is possible to make a first/last true statement about a person, then they are like that: lifelines that come from and revert to nothingness. |