Biography
Artist Statement:
Exploring whiteness.
Anna Fafaliou is a London based conceptual and visual artist.
Fascinated by the Color Theory and the relationship between the color white and memory, I create imaginary environments questioning the visual & physical ways of experiencing materiality and how we perceive, process and record our immediate environment. My practice is based on the distortion of commonplace objects, materials and forms in order to create new dialogues between them and the viewer, observing the disruption of familiarity to them. Living in a consumer society, we tend to justify ourselves through our belongings; thus we associate our emotions and memories with materials and objects. My work focuses on the fluidity and instability of our visual perception and memory in relation to the physical presence, and how spatial relationships can be disrupted and are open to interpretation. Inspired by the notion of memory, identity & visual perception I create installations & performances exploring the relationship between object, memory and space. The play between reality & abstraction stands at the forefront of my projects.
Artist CV:
Exhibitions 2016
Abstract Art, Brick Lane Gallery, Group Show, February 2016, London
Concrete Matters, Bank Space Gallery, The Cass, March 2016, London
Designers Lights, Creaid, Charity Auction, March 2016, Athens
Imago Mundi, Benetton Foundation, 2016, London
Souls & Shadows, Frieze Week, May 2016, New York
Exhibitions 2015
The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London
Matter. Place. An other. , Gallery202, Northampton
The Story So Far, Group Exhibition supported by Arts Council, W3 Gallery, London
Maps, Group Exhibition, Scene Art, London
Mapping Memory, Imaginary Museum, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
Nostos, Liquid Rooms - Venice International Art Festival, Venice
Going South, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, GaleriaZero,Malaga, Spain
Awards
1st Place | ArtExhibeo Art Competition on "Memory", April 2015
Education
MA Body in Performance, Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, London, UK
MA Film & Visual Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
MA & BA, School of Fine Arts, AUTH University of Thessaloniki, GR
