Artist Statement
My practice examines the intricate relations between humans, nonhuman animals, plants, and technologies through essayistic film and video works. My work is research-based, recontextualizing scientific or operational images to interrogate their formal and political implications, drawing out the aesthetics of machine learning experiments, or the poetics of dissection. Zagging across scientific and artistic histories, I find unlikely echoes, precedents, accidental art movements buried inside technical reports or paintings purporting to be data. I read science history as science fiction, re-interpreting theories for their poetry, or culling past experiments for their formal and political expressions. My work integrates techniques of re-photography and re-enactment to intervene on these histories, teasing out layered interpretations and troubling their original meanings.
Still lives of real fruit meet botanical illustrations of plant galls to expose the paradox of dissection: each time we cut something in two, we merely create a new exterior.