Drawing was part my upbringing and my formal artistic training began at a young age. Later I studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Barbara Putz-Plecko, Erwin Wurm, and Franziska Maderthaner. Currently I'm teaching art in Salzburg. My works are held in private collections across Europe, Africa and the Americas.
At the core of my artistic practice is the question of how images come into being and what happens to them when they are translated from one system of perception into another.
My work began with a series in which I transformed photographs taken by a blind person into tactile drawings. Since then, I have been exploring processes of translation: How does an image change when its mode of perception changes?
In later works, I reinterpreted art historical imagery by combining iconic works and placing them in new contexts. My focus gradually shifted toward the question of how meaning is generated through transformation.
In my current series, audio descriptions of well-known artworks serve as the point of departure. The original image remains unseen its place is taken by language. The description determines only part of the image; everything it leaves unsaid becomes the space for my artistic decisions. The resulting works are not reproductions but autonomous drawings that exist between translation, memory, and imagination.
My practice revolves around two central questions:
1) What remains of an image when its visibility is lost?
2) What information does an image need in order to come into being again?
I am less interested in the finished image than in the process through which it emerges between seeing and touch, between the original and memory, between language and drawing. Every act of translation transforms an image. And every translation gives rise to a new original.
