My practice is a direct engagement with the vital, vibrant energy of the world, challenging the long-held human assumption of sole artistic control. It is an exploration that moves beyond representation to directly activate the agency of matter. The initial installation, 'In The Night Garden' (2024), served as a crucial point of introspection. Though I used synthetic materials to mimic nature’s resilience, the process revealed a profound truth: a human-controlled, imagined environment- no matter how fantastical—will ultimately become static. This realization fueled my core research question: How do we, as artists, truly relinquish control to the unpredictability, growth, and inherent agency of living systems? Drawing deeply from Posthumanism and New Materialism, particularly Jane Bennett’s concept of "Vibrant Matter", I see non-human entities not as inert subjects but as active collaborators in shaping reality. This theoretical framework is now materializing in my Bioart experiments, such as the ongoing project ‘Emergent Ecologies’.
My current focus is on creating 'living' imagined environments that rethink human-nature symbiosis. I am deliberately seeking a co-collaboration with natural material, allowing materials themselves—whether it be the clay’s unpredictable shrinkage in the kiln (as seen in the work of Zizipho Poswa ) or the spontaneous growth of organisms (as in Ximena Garrido-Lecca's work)- to dictate the artistic outcome.
My process is defined by this act of surrender: breaking with traditional artmaking by letting the material’s inherent life and energy drive the evolution of the work. My work is an invitation to acknowledge that the world, and by extension the artwork, is created through dynamic interactions with matter itself. By integrating living organisms and encouraging their growth, my art proposes a new paradigm where the artistic subject is no longer the human master, but the emergent, participatory ecosystem itself.