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