Collages are hysterical surprises, fragmented landscapes, delirious layers of appropriation and ambiguity, shocks of juxtaposition in the surrealist spirit. Collages collide times, combining unconscious dream-space with a stranger’s zone to make automatic narratives out of cyanotypes, found and constructed photographs, discarded books, art historical reproductions, and other forms of paper. Every collage is a collaboration with media and time. I work against the virtual tide of exclusive and temporary digital experience. I want to undo existing representations into dystopian / utopian imaginaries. Engaged with ethical seeing, I subvert dominant ideologies of hopelessness, desire, struggle and being. Collages are critiques of representation itself.
I have been making collages ever since I was a child. They are my constant companion, pleasure source and the art I make for art's sake. Many are made while travelling – in  Canada, France, Turkey, Germany, Brazil, France, Japan, the Netherlands and in the United States. Collages are hysterical surprises, fragmented landscapes, subconscious or delirious layers,  automatic narratives in the surrealist spirit. Collage are means to collide times, simultaneously forgetting and remembering, whimsically collecting and discarding scraps of everything, to combine the unconscious space of dreams and the foreigner's zone with the stranger's perspective, to spin a magical narrative out of organic elements, tape, childhood drawings, playing cards, discarded books, book covers, postcards, art historical reproductions, magazines, Xerox transfers, anatomic illustrations, an old bible…