Anna Fafaliou

Fascinated by the Colour 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.

MA Body in Performance, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, London, UK

MA Film & Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

MA & BA, School of Fine Arts, AUTH University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Exhibitions 2016

Abstract Art, Brick Lane Gallery, Group Show, February 2016, London

Concrete Matters, CASS / Whitechapel Gallery Graduate Programme, March 2016, London

Designers Lights, Creaid / Charity Auction, Athens One, April 2016, Athens

Souls & Shadows, "Hyperion" Group Exhibition, New York Frieze Week, May 2016, New York

Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Foundation, 2016, London

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