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Perspectives

Reflections on perception, art, design and the realities we construct from them. Perspectives shift the point of view—not necessarily to find answers, but to call the seemingly self-evident into question again.

When It Feels True

My artistic practice explores images that appear credible even though, on a visual level, what they show may not seem to correspond to reality. Two spaces merge into one. Perspectives contradict each other. Photographs of different places form a single situation. Our perception connects before our thinking objects. I am not interested in creating a […] Read →

Perspective Is Not a Matter of Opinion

Perspective has a bad reputation. When someone says that something is ‘a matter of perspective’, they usually mean that it can be seen one way or another. Everyone has their own point of view. You have yours, I have mine, and somewhere in between lies the truth. That is convenient. And it plays down what […] Read →

Why Perspectives?

My artistic practice has explored perception for many years: what we see, what we recognise in it—and what we consequently take to be true. For me, however, perception does not end with the image. I encounter it in art as much as in design, in language and media, in social developments, in everyday life and, […] Read →