My work combines sculpture and installation, grounded in the urban infrastructures that quietly hold contemporary life together. I work with materials and objects drawn from the city—cables, metal frames, electrical components, discarded tools, fragments of domestic and industrial systems—often collected through walking and observing what remains overlooked, broken, or obsolete. These elements function as sculptural matter but also as traces of larger systems that usually operate in the background: electricity, communication networks, scaffolding, drainage, support structures hidden behind walls or underground.

I approach these structures as psycho-infrastructures: a continuum where material systems and mental frameworks overlap. The ways cities are built—layered, repaired, improvised, patched—shape not only how we move and live, but how we imagine, desire, and perceive. Through processes of accumulation, incision, puncture, and re-assembly, I make these normally invisible supports hypervisible, exposing their inner workings and their fragility.

My sculptures often sit between opposing scales: the human body and the urban landscape. References to vertebrae, nests, watches, or clothing appear alongside cables, frames, and industrial debris, collapsing distinctions between organic and manufactured, intimate and infrastructural. Found objects are repurposed and reworked by hand, suggesting that materials—and the systems they belong to—carry multiple lives and temporalities.

Rather than treating infrastructure as fixed or neutral, my work treats it as malleable, metabolised by sculpture, and open to re-interpretation.

Welcome to my website, If you have any questions or want to start a conversation feel free to message me, I’d be happy to chat:

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Together with Katy Hundertmark and Nuno Beijinho, I run Mutter, a project space for contemporary art in Amsterdam. See

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