SEARCHING
My work often begins long before I enter a physical space.
It starts with searching - with scrolling, looking, and lingering. I use satellite images, digital maps and online traces to locate buildings that appear abandoned, overlooked or no longer in use.
This preliminary phase can take a long time. It is slow and speculative. I mark coordinates, compare images across different points in time, and try to imagine what might still be present inside a place that has already slipped out of public view.
ENTERING
Entering an abandoned house is never a neutral act.
I only enter spaces when doors or windows are already open, allowing access without force or intervention. I approach these places as a temporary visitor, aware that I am stepping into a layered history that does not belong to me.
The risk involved is not only physical, but also ethical. I spend time observing rather than intervening, letting the space determine the pace of the encounter.
COLLECTING
In these places, I encounter fragments.
I do not remove objects or materials from the sites. What I find remains where it is. Objects, documents, handwritten notes, letters or traces of everyday routines are recorded only through digital means - photographs and 3D scans.
Rather than extracting them as relics, I treat these fragments as contextual markers: indicators of absence, use and abandonment. They form the basis of my artistic work.
RECONSTRUCTION
The collected material is translated into digital forms.
I do not approach this process as an attempt to restore or preserve a place in a traditional sense. Instead, I construct a parallel, mediated version of the site - one that reflects its instability and fragmentation.
I use digital space as a field of negotiation: between documentation and fiction, presence and loss, storage and disappearance.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Some of my works emerge through shared explorations and situational support by:
Renate
Julian
Laurenz
Adrian
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