Statement:
My work explores the body as a sensitive surface, where gestures, fluids, and materials produce images. Through analogue photography, textile, and experimental processes, I am interested in the traces that emerge, imprints of memory, time, and lived experience. Film, paper, fabric, or plant matter become surfaces shaped by direct actions: soaking, exposing, altering, embroidering. The image is never fixed; it remains in transformation.
Self-portraiture is a point of departure that I approach as a space of passage. My body engages in the process, becoming material to be displaced, assembled, and reconfigured. Stitching and textile gestures extend this work as a slow, repetitive form of repair, inscribing time differently within the image.
Today, I am turning toward alternative processes, seeking to reduce the use of toxic chemicals in order to establish a more direct and organic relationship with materials. By extending my practice beyond the darkroom into space, I develop installation forms where the image is not only viewed, but also physically experienced.
L.H, 2026
Photo by Dorothea Groß