My artistic practice moves across installation, text, sound, and video. I am interested in stage-like situations in which bodies, performers, or characters remain absent. Rather than presenting events directly, I often work with traces, fragments, and spatial arrangements that suggest that something has happened, is about to happen, or might happen elsewhere. Viewers are confronted with gaps and invited to speculate. Meaning emerges through what remains absent, obscured, or only partially revealed.

Often, my works begin with an obsession with a particular place or spatial situation. Apartments, studios, storefronts, or the unnoticed spaces of everyday life become starting points for thinking about intimacy, visibility, belonging, and longing.

"thens and theres" emerged from one such obsession. One night, on my way home from work, I became fascinated by an illuminated basement shaft in front of my apartment building. Looking down into it, I was struck by the strange sense that it promised access to another place - a place both physically present and somehow elsewhere.

The installation takes the form of a grey, stage-like sculptural structure reminiscent of an architectural model. Embedded within it is a basement shaft that functions as a peculiar kind of backstage, turning the object into something suspended between stage, house, and basement. Light and sound emerge from it.

Through a narrated sound piece, a voice moves through an urban environment in search of cracks, gaps, and holes. These spaces become interruptions within the nightly cityscape: openings that seem to promise a "then and there", a place and way of being together that is not yet here.

Less concerned with utopia itself than with the desire for it, the work explores longing as a spatial and social condition: a longing for connection and collectivity, for belonging to a place and to other people, even if only temporarily.

Drawing on queer nightlife, personal experiences, and literary references, "thens and theres" explores the relationship between belonging and longing, visibility and withdrawal, performance and stage fright.