If you were to discuss a professional milestone that you didn’t expect but represented a significant turning point for you, what would it be?

To have been invited by Elena Filipovic, whom I have admired since years, to realise my most recent show at Kunsthalle Basel. And to have had Ken Lum as a teacher many years ago.

When you create and realise an art work, is there a specific aesthetic or model you explicitly want to capture, or do the characters materialise from a spontaneous flow?

It is always someone I admire, close friends or images that I have in my mind. They come as a continuous flow. I photograph and sketch constantly. I daydream about everything and I have a pretty clear idea of what I want. Then it becomes something of its own. I also like to work with live models in the studio lately. The aesthetic is something I cannot escape. It is like a given, a style that happens when chasing something beautiful.