By creating spaces that restrict and coerce the viewer’s movement and gaze, confusing the observer with the observed, and the subject with the object, I use photography and site-specific installations that insinuate themselves into the existing architecture. A state of heightened vigilance increases a viewer’s awareness and challenges his behaviour, both inside and outside of the space. These disinfected, antiseptic spaces hygienically estrange the viewer further, aggravating the coercion to the point of violence. A violence that is directly associated with my family’s war and postwar experiences; the traces of which still resonate profoundly in my generation.

Supported by Bay Plastics Ltd; Powerprint