bio

I am a visual artist using moving-image, text and installation to question dominant narratives across recent histories. By analyzing ideological and cultural apparatuses I seek the origins of these narratives and how peripheral subjects, be they humans, plants or animals, experience them. I think of my artworks as propositions that indicate alternatives to dominant ideologies that shape our understanding of what nature or technology is. Fictional or investigative, my video work manifests in experimental forms, while sculptures and objects are reconfigurations of already existing phenomena.
Political, ecological, cosmological, and technological themes come to the surface through the experiences of beings/characters that originate from marginal places, at the edge of the world, and to whom things that are out of their control happen. I identify with the experiences of the subjects in my work, hence each project has a strong personal significance.
My work originates from a deep feeling of urgency fuelled by the desire to comprehend reality and the systems of beliefs accumulated across colonial histories which have been affecting the use and creation of technological machines as well as global experiences and perceptions of the environment. I approach writing and filmmaking as propositional, rejecting both dominant ideologies and utopia and embracing hybrids such as theory-fiction, docu-fiction, slipstream, video essays, expanded cinema, and magic realism.
Since 2023 I have been working between my day job at BAK, Basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and my Rotterdam based studio-collective, Shed, which I initiated in 2022. I am also founded Film Mai Aproape Summer School in Romania, a free, alternative visual arts education program dedicated to teenagers.

Exhibitions & Screenings

2024 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (nomination for the competition)
2024 Rotterdams Open Doek Film Festival (screening)
2024 WET, Rotterdam (group exhibition)
2024 Go Short International Film Festival, Nijmigen (nomination for the Dutch competition)
2023 Melkweg, Amsterdam (screening during Amsterdam Dance Event in collaboration with Yara Said)
2023 W139, Amsterdam (group exhibition)
2022 Tent, Rotterdam (group exhibition)
2021 Eye Museum, Amsterdam (group screening)2020 the wrong web (online exhibition)
2019 Studio 3 Gallery, Canterbury (group exhibition)
2018 ICA, London (group screening)

Residencies, Grants, Summer School

2024 (grant) Mondriaan Fund Artist Start
2023 (residency) Salwa Foundation, Amsterdam
2023 (grant) Shady Dealings With Money writers grant
2021 (summer school) Deep Sustainability: Dialogical Action Emerging Institutionalities @West Den Haag

Publications and Texts

Kid of the internet (EN) published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, 2022
https://www.onomatopee.net/product/kid-of-the-internet/

Readings & Talks

2022 Perdu, Amsterdam

Film Programming

Palestine Solidarity Screening (December, 2023)
https://worm.org/production/palestina-solidarity-screening/

Cinema Chloroplast (May, 2023)
https://worm.org/production/film-cinema-chloroplast/

Pass The Camera: works by Edwin Mingard (March, 2023)
https://worm.org/production/pass-the-camera-works-by-edwin-mingard/

Across the bridge towards the East (December, 2022)
https://worm.org/production/romanian-new-wave-short-films-program/

Shorts to the Point (2020 - 2023)
https://shorttothepoint.com/

Moscow Shorts (2020 - 2022)
https://moscowshorts.com/

Education

MA Lens Based Media, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam

BA Film and Drama, The University of Kent, Canterbury