The concept of balance has been key for my development as an artist, as well as for life in general – the short moment between ascend and descent, between rising and falling. I hold that balance itself is not achievable at all, as can be observed by watching rope walkers: From a distance, they seems to be effortlessly balancing on the rope. On closer inspection, this balance turns out to be nothing but the challenge to withstand precarity by constantly shifting the weight from one leg to the other. This exemplifies my understanding of balance as a transitory, ephemeral and adaptive state of being, which cannot be permanently achieved but rather results from a constant and perpetual effort, a delicate balance between the fleeting and the tangible.

While I have initially considered the precarious state of balance as a topic in itself, I have gradually started to incorporate it in my work as more of a framework. In my early works I have attempted to visualize it in an explicit and literal sense; in Divided by horizontal and diagonal choices I balanced my own body on a seesaw construction with a sculpture of a human-like figure, frozen in its own movement. I strived for the work to be extremely mobile in all its parts, to communicate how stability has more to do with “livability in the midst of disturbance” (Anna Tsing 2015), than with comfort.