ANNAHITA BROOKS (ENG)
GuestRoomMaribor 2023
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Annahita Brooks (CHE)
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Annahita Brooks (b. London, 1997) is a half-polish half-Persian contemporary artist investigating her heritage through lens-based media, installation art and site-specific research. Her current research topics include societal withdrawal, melancholy, and medieval monasticism which she plans on pursuing through doctoral research. She is based between Edinburgh and Zürich and holds a BA in Fine Art from Zürich University of the Arts (Switzerland), an MFA in Fine Art from University of Oxford (United Kingdom), and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom). Annahita currently works part time as a co-curator, co-project manager, and media lab technician, at IRMA Republic (Bern, Switzerland), a non-profit new peripheral platform that leverages artistic and scientific research to develop multidimensional perspectives of society.
GuestRoomMaribor 17. 2. 2023
The presentation and discussion will be in English.
Mnemosyne’s Atlas: the goddess of memory and visual imagery. Throughout my residency I have researched and produced a photographic atlas of collected architecture, artworks, feelings, and objects. Following Andre Malraux’s ideas, I have created a personally essential collection, a Musée Imaginaire, of my artistic and sociological investigation and involvement with Maribor. An accessible visual depot of my interpretation, experience, and memory. This is a collection of culture as an act where the photographs and photographed subjects are not imposed by curatorial intervention, logic, or structure, other than being collected through the lens of two overarching themes from my previous research: despair/death and the anti-chapel. This collection has inspired some interventions, constructed situations, and artworks which will be on display, and I will be presenting my theoretical and artistic research linked to three texts: Ancrene Wisse (anchoress guidance text), Ars Moriendi (the art of dying), and Tears and Saints by Emil Cioran.
The Open Atelier of Annahita Brooks: Mnemosyne’s Atlas and the Despair of the Failed Mystic
On Tuesday, 28th of February, at 7 pm, we kindly invite you to the studio appartment of the GuestRoomMaribor programme, in Vetrinjski dvor, for the presentation of Annahita Brooks' research residency - Mnemosyne's Atlas and the Despair of a Failed Mystic.The presentation and discussion will be in English.
Mnemosyne’s Atlas: the goddess of memory and visual imagery. Throughout my residency I have researched and produced a photographic atlas of collected architecture, artworks, feelings, and objects. Following Andre Malraux’s ideas, I have created a personally essential collection, a Musée Imaginaire, of my artistic and sociological investigation and involvement with Maribor. An accessible visual depot of my interpretation, experience, and memory. This is a collection of culture as an act where the photographs and photographed subjects are not imposed by curatorial intervention, logic, or structure, other than being collected through the lens of two overarching themes from my previous research: despair/death and the anti-chapel. This collection has inspired some interventions, constructed situations, and artworks which will be on display, and I will be presenting my theoretical and artistic research linked to three texts: Ancrene Wisse (anchoress guidance text), Ars Moriendi (the art of dying), and Tears and Saints by Emil Cioran.
