My research focuses on labor, particularly that which takes place within agricultural contexts, and aims to question the characteristics supposedly belonging to rurality or urbanity. I am interested in work practices performed by farmers and non-human workers such as soil dwellers, microorganisms or agricultural machines. These environments and their inhabitants serve as protagonists in my polymorphous corpus of work involving mixed-media installations, sculpture, textile work, sound, video and conceptual cereal gardens.
Land, as a tool of production but also as a symbolic and emotional space - to be surveyed, mapped, probed - is a constitutive element of my practice. I use common, non-precious and repurposed materials to create within an 'agricultural aesthetic' that combines practicality and materiality. The critical questions around production processes in both agriculture and art are central to my projects from conception to realization.
Growing up on a peasant farm, I combine autobiographical elements from a working-class perspective with social sciences and empirical experience without having any romanticism about the figure of the peasant, life in the countryside or the relationship with so-called Nature. As a queer person, I am committed to challenging the concept of what is considered 'natural'. My work proudly embraces queerness, especially in terms of deconstruction, inclusiveness and representativeness.
My research focuses on labor, particularly that which takes place within agricultural contexts, and aims to question the characteristics supposedly belonging to rurality or urbanity. I am interested in work practices performed by farmers and non-human workers such as soil dwellers, microorganisms or agricultural machines. These environments and their inhabitants serve as protagonists in my polymorphous corpus of work involving mixed-media installations, sculpture, textile work, sound, video and conceptual cereal gardens.
Land, as a tool of production but also as a symbolic and emotional space - to be surveyed, mapped, probed - is a constitutive element of my practice. I use common, non-precious and repurposed materials to create within an 'agricultural aesthetic' that combines practicality and materiality. The critical questions around production processes in both agriculture and art are central to my projects from conception to realization.
Growing up on a peasant farm, I combine autobiographical elements from a working-class perspective with social sciences and empirical experience without having any romanticism about the figure of the peasant, life in the countryside or the relationship with so-called Nature. As a queer person, I am committed to challenging the concept of what is considered 'natural'. My work proudly embraces queerness, especially in terms of deconstruction, inclusiveness and representativeness.