About:

14.01.1980 (Portugal)

lives and works in Amsterdam

My earlier work clearly stands in an ambiguous space, raising questions rather than attempting to make statements or provide answers, and thereby may lie closer to art than design. The kind of questions I asked, however, challenge the status of such apparent oppositions as art/design or even question/answer. I have borrowed strategies from diverse fields such as graphic communications, industrial design, interior architecture and conceptual art, thereby trying to devise hybrid projects that appear to offer a use value, a function and at the same time subtly undermine the very notion of usability and thereby provoke an uncertainty or confusion in the mind of the viewer.