ARTIST STATEMENT
I create performance and visual works that confront the shifting relationship between human beings and the natural forces that sustain – and outlast – us. Living in Svalbard, on the front lines of the climate crisis, I witness daily how political decisions, economic systems, and cultural habits shape the Arctic’s rapid transformation. My practice responds to these realities through direct engagement with elemental processes: ice melting, fire consuming, wind battering, and the body enduring. These encounters form the core of my work. They are metaphors and situations in which environmental truths unfold in real time.
My background in engineering and international marketing informs the structural clarity and critical edge of my performances. I think of them as live and poetic images—distilled actions that expose the conflict between what we know and what we fail to act upon. Whether dragging an ice block covered in dollar bills into a New York gallery or standing in a Svalbard storm until exhaustion sets in, I aim to reveal how climate, power, and presence are deeply entangled.
I work to create images that disrupt indifference and reactivate attention. Many of my projects ask audiences to consider their own complicity in global systems that treat nature as resource, backdrop, or abstraction. By placing my body in direct encounter with elemental forces, I try to re-establish a relationship of recognition—one that acknowledges our vulnerability, our dependence, and our responsibility.
My commitment to collaboration and shared experience led me to found Arctic Action International Performance Festival and the nomadic project Arctic Pavilion. These platforms invite artists from around the world to meet the Arctic not as an idea, but as a lived reality—its beauty, its volatility, and its geopolitical weight. Bringing diverse voices into this environment is a way of widening the conversation about how we inhabit a rapidly changing planet.
In this spirit, I am drawn to foster international dialogue, critical inquiry, and cultural exchange. My work begins with a simple premise: that to move forward, we must learn to see clearly again. By staging encounters between the body, the elements, and the forces that govern our world, I hope to create spaces where recognition is possible—and where imagination can become action.
