The photographic work Oil soaked thematizes urban space and its energetic basis. In this context,
Dubai is a representative example of a global metropolis based on international trade, tourism,
excessive consumption and related extreme energy consumption.
Its infrastructure, built in desert terrain, depends on using vast amounts of fossil energy and stands
out for its most significant ecological footprint globally.

In Oil soaked, crude oil conceptually functions as a formative element and dominates the photographic
aesthetic. The urbanity of Dubai, filtered through a glass filter layer coated with crude oil, meets a film in
a large-format camera and is mapped in unpredictable ways by the organic movement of the oil.

An aesthetic of dependence emerges in the conceptual confluence of urban space and its fossil base.