We are surrounded by images of an alternative way of life. We remember or forget the images but briefly we take them in. For a moment they stimulate our imagination either by way of memory or by anticipation. But where is this other way of life? It's a language of words and images which calls out to us wherever we go, whatever we read, wherever we are. Where do they exist, these faboulous objects and people, where do they belong to? Here, there or nowhere. They come with us everywhere, we take them away in our lives, we see them in our dreams.
From Ways of seeing, John Burger, BBC, 1972
The starting point of my work is the fascination for the medium ‘image’ itself. Through discovering and researching repetitive image material I felt the necessity to order and organize the abundance of pictures. In 2005 I started working on a archive of photography (archive series), based on archetypical images. This archive is the attempt to catalogue the stereotypes and define our time. Until now, the result are twelve photographic series. On the first glance, the work seems to be a reproduction of known patterns, but there is a second, subtle layer. I am interested in definitions formed and developed by our culture. These definitions are often based on perfection and idealism, which I like to analyse and reproduce in my work.