I am based between Amsterdam and Mexico City. I work with materials, making assemblages and installations with objects that come from diverse processes: materials I craft, found objects, raw materials, and digitally produced elements. The common themes that come into my artworks have to do with infrastructure: what supports and keeps our life running? From our skeletons to the infrastructures of gas, water, or electricity, to very mundane things like the legs of a table. I see the material world as grammar, a language. The world we live in has been written, and we keep writing or editing it.

Through my artwork, I ask how life changes every time we rewrite or edit the structures that hold reality together. I transform elements such as cables, water pipes, and architectural skeletons to hyper-expose what normally remains hidden or in gray areas. In my sculpture, I merge references to our organic bodies, like vertebrae, watches, and clothing, and entangle them with materials that belong to infrastructure networks.

I am compelled by infrastructures because I see them in my ankles when I stand up, in a handrail in the metro station, or in a broken gas line during a political conflict. I see infrastructures as joints between countries, the city, and the body.

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