At the moment, I work mainly on manipulation (the influence of fear on our society, the belief in ‘alternative facts and realities’), the functioning of our memory (how we deal with memories) and how our brain interacts with information. And consequently, how it is susceptible to manipulation.

The psychological effect of the social algorithm is often underestimated. The ‘like’ culture cleverly plays on the addiction-sensitive reward mechanisms in our brain. It can lead to echo chambers, the creation of a ‘false I’ and psychological problems. Targeted content influences voting behaviour and contributes to convergence. You could say that the more the digital world opens up, the more our real world becomes limited. What does this mean for future society: doesn’t the social animal, man, become antisocial and more alienated from reality by these new technologies?
Information has always been regarded as power; however, disinformation or targeted ‘manipulated’ information nowadays yields much more power: the total surrender of the individual to an idea. In this respect, control communism in China, cults and movements such as QAnon are not so very different. Polarising opinions, fake news stories packaged as conspiracy theories, they are everywhere these days. The algorithms, designed to hold the attention span as long as possible, feed the sensationalism endlessly. Technology is used by just about anyone with a commercial or political goal as the ultimate weapon to gain control over what someone thinks and how someone acts.

My work is at the crossroads of photography and other art forms in which photography is still a starting point, but is increasingly (in)fused with other media.
From ‘normal’ photography, my work evolved into (analogue and digital) collages and then into other media. In exhibitions, I often create installations, trying to blend photography with other (visual) arts.
I find photography as sculpture or even performance much more exciting than a frame on the wall. Which is not to say that I don’t do that anymore, but it is becoming more integrated into the whole, the making of a complete ‘own world’.

Selection of exhibitions

2024 Limburg Biënnale, Maastricht, NL (selected by Anouk Kruithof)
2024 At The Time When We Were Lost, Cc De Steiger, Boom, (with Christophe Simoen, Kirsi Kempkes)
2024 Fragmentations, group show, AHWNN Gallery, Oostende, BE
2024 Sorry, I, Solo, Funke, Gent, BE
2022: Salon Blanc, Oostende, BE
2022 Kunst In Huis 4m2, Gent, BE
2022 Nocebo #2, 4n20, Kortrijk, BE (with Christophe Simoen, Kirsi Kempkes)
2022 Offspace #1, Gent, BE (group show with Ben Benaouisse, Lieven Herreman, Aäron Willem, Rik Goethijn, ...)
2022 The Plinth, S.M.A.K, Gent, BE
2021 Labo #5, Leuven, BE
2021 Nocebo, Post X, Merelbeke, BE (with Christophe Simoen, Kirsi Kempkes)
2020 Future Proposals, Platvvorm, Deinze, BE (group show with Leen Vandierendonck, Paul Van Haegenbergh,..)
2020 CAST, Zottegem, BE (group show with Hanne Lamon, Kevin Vanwonterghem)
2020 Festival Circulations, 104, Paris, FR (group show with Jan Hoek, Alba Zari, ...)
2019 033 Fotofinish Groupshow, Amersfoort, NL
2019 PEP Selection and Groupshow, tête, Berlin, DE
2019 vSac, groupexpo w/ Hans Op de Beeck, Lies Caeyers, Maaike Schoorel, Ritsart Gobyn,… , Leuven, BE
2019 .tiff, expo w Egon Van Herreweghe, Titus Simoens, Ann Vincent,... FoMu, Antwerpen, BE
2017 Recyclart, Josey Dakota, Brussel, solo, BE  
2017 Brugge Fotofestival, Turn/return Bogaerdekapel, Brugge, w Dries Segers, Julie van der Vaart, Michel Mazzoni, Brugge,  BE
2017 Somerset Gallery, Sony World Photography Shortlist Expo, London, UK
2017 TIG#5-Designmuseum w Willem Boel, Ann Sophie Deproost, Gent, Group Show, Gent, BE
2017 Cloud Gallery, Group Show w Vincent Delbrouck,..., Amsterdam, NL
2016 Braakland, FoMu, Antwerp, BE

Permanent work

2022 'Cache-Cache' OPEK, Leuven

Publications
2021 Echo’s Uit De Wijk #1-10: social photography project, magazine #1 edited by Jeroen De Wandel
2020 Amygdala Alpha & Amygdala Bèta: first two chapters in ongoing series of self publkished photobooks
2018 Semi Magazine, Alpha, print publication, UK
2018 Publication Unveil’d and Phases Magazine, UK
2017 Life Framer, Permanent Collection, UK
2017: Synthesis I & II, self published photobooks