My practice is centered on performance and installation, where the body directly confronts structures of power and systems of control. Through movement I explore the tension between containment and release, the deliberate and the unconscious. It is a physical act and a response driven by political consciousness that engages in questions of intimacy, desire, consumption, autonomy.
My related studio works often emerge from the physical act of engagement with materials – crushing, dragging, sweeping, holding, pressing, amongst other instinctive movements and motions. The larger-scale abstractions begin as pure movement and evolve into explorations of embodied experience and the complex terrain of human relationships. The gestural language developed in my paintings finds new expression in these works that explore intimacy, power, desire, consumption, sexual autonomy, the workplace, technology, the media and societal structures at large.