For more than ten years I have worked on the theatrical nature of everyday life and I have questioned the representation of the collective subconscious in order to avoid its nostalgic side. When staging these common and timeless images I try to reconstruct a past that fades away from memory, as well as to link personal genealogical questions to a possible shared collective experience. The picture framing is treated as a stage in which anonymous actors play their roles in front of the curtains of an imaginary theatre.

"The picture framing is treated as a stage in which anonymous actors play their roles in front of the curtains of an imaginary theatre"

My departure point is always a found photograph or even an amateur movie frame. For a long time I worked with my own family albums, but at a certain point I thought this material was losing nerve, and besides it was complicated to exhibit and sell paintings of people who were so close to me. Because of that I tried to regain a clean look and the magical moment associated with the finding of an unknown image. I started looking around flea markets and private archives. Lately, as a means to continue working on the collective, and now again family and personal, imaginary, my glance is widening by including not only image, but also written narrative referents. I pay special attention to popular kid’s literature works that were part of my sentimental education, such as Astrid Lindgren, Tove Jansson and Selma Lagerlöf.