Signe Vad works with the strange, the erotic and the grotesque as lifeblood; in a poetic dialectic that criticizes the peculiarly hostile systems of power and superficial lifeless structures. She explores and examines existential, philosophical issues; where-from her artworks about self and community, nature, co-existence and political conditions grow.
She works from a perspective where the body and nature are elements of a common world; where the idea of kinship across species is essential to balancing the ecosystem; where the body responds intuitively to a sense of industrial alienation and contorts in screaming configurations; where natural elements become allusions to a forgotten relationship to our living planet.
Vad works with the body, our skin, flesh and cells as the organic nature closest to us humans. The body becomes a tool to eclipse our classifications of gender, stereotypes and human norms. For Vad the body becomes a metaphor, a piece of flesh, a piece of nature, the artworks declare metaphorically that human and body, like other wild nature, cannot be classified into petrified concepts.
Her works often function on two plans a personal/bodily access to being-in-the-world and a comment on how we relate to- and create the common world. Her art practice is multidisciplinary and includes photography, video art, installations, web stream art projects and performance.