Born in Sierre, Switzerland in 1998, I grew up in the Alps without many worries. After my high school diploma, I moved to Vancouver to pursue an Acting Certificate. I was faced with the reality of living by myself in a foreign country, away from my family and friends. During that time, I found comfort in Art. Roaming the Vancouver art gallery, observing other people’s work, being invigorated by my acting studies and my classmates proved me that art would always take an important part in my life. After completing my studies and being faced with the difficulties of visa requirements, I moved back to my family home and started a new adventure: getting my bachelor’s degree in the field of Human Geography in Lausanne. During those three years, I stepped away from the Arts and learned many things about our society, about the systemic functioning of our world, about social inequalities, and about the beauty of specificities in understanding problems. I am now a master’s student in Critical Urbanisms in Basel, still in Switzerland, and I have found my way back to the Arts.
As for many others, the pandemic was a time for me to reconnect with my wishes and a part of me that I had set aside. I started editing some pictures that I had taken and immediately was inspired by playing with hues and colors. Two years later, my technique has evolved, the messages I share through my edits are more profound and thought out, and my passion has grown. My inspiration is fed from my experiences of life and of reality. I have gained the courage to consider myself an artist only recently, after I spent many days observing, analyzing, and admiring the works in art galleries in Seoul, South Korea. Every artist expresses a message in their own way. And mine is just as worthy as theirs. This is my art. These are my messages.
My creative process is all about intuition. There is no planning involved. I start off by taking pictures when something catches my eye. The pictures I find most interesting are usually those that emanate from pure interest and not from prospects of editing them.
When editing the pictures, I play with them for a while and let them express what they have to show me. I do not want to force or impose an idea on what they must say. Rather, depending on how the pixels react to the modifications I put on them, I will interpret them in different ways. I like to think of the pictures having messages hidden within them. My purpose is to discover those messages and to share them. After I have understood the reactions of the pictures, I decide on how to show the message and modify the picture in a particular direction.
I am very much inspired by fauvism and impressionism. The colors used in fauvism are a true inspiration for me, while the technique of pointillism in impressionism inspires me to work with pixels. To me, pixels are to digital art what points are to traditional art. Both allow the artist to create lines, shapes, colors, and by joining countless points/pixels, we create an art piece. My interest in pixels comes from the fact that they are extremely vast and precise. They hide many information that is invisible to the naked eye. A picture holds much more than what we see. Playing with such richness of information, I modify pixels to bring more richness to the pictures, to a point that it becomes difficult to identify what the original picture depicted and to reveal the hidden message within the picture through the vibration of colors and light.
