Walking is an immersive and multi-sensory form of bodily movement. According to Edmund Husserl and other phenomenologists, we understand our body in relation to the world when we practice the mundane act of walking. While we walk, our bodies engage with the surrounding space and we intimately sense, perceive and think a place. 

Since I am interested in how to gain embodied spatial knowledge in artistic practice, most of my work is based on walking as a way to read the environment in direct encounter with terrain, atmosphere, the human and the more-than-human world.

In my artistic practice, I experiment with the materiality and spatiality of the photograph to expand the photographic language towards installation and three-dimensional objects. I often use layers of images to create new scopes of meaning. With the intention to bring the image back to a walkable environment, I am especially interested in how to arrange two-dimensional photographs into spatial installations.

Photography and walking as social practices are at the core of The Space Lab. The Space Lab is a mobile lab for artistic and collaborative explorations of spatial environments. Together with local co-researchers, Space Lab projects explore how we can perceive and re-think the spaces and places we encounter in our everyday lives.

Having been teaching photography as a social practice in academic contexts, I am also very interested in the gains and pitfalls of photographic processes in participatory research and participatory art.

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