Anna Stevens - MA Fine Art
'bogus' sacred assemblage
Creating sculptural assemblages from personal detritus, body casts and fabricated elements, Steven’s embodies past versions of themselves, creating corpse-like static cathartic reflections of complex bodymind traumas. Key points of meditation in the work include alcoholism, consumption, interhuman relationships, negative physical and mental health, and death. The artist draws comparisons between rituals and the sacred spaces of spirituality, the artworld and personal dependencies with religious iconography and objects that perform as relics. These objects, that act as souvenirs that hold memories of personal histories, are often mutated and mummified to express the horror and surreality of the events.
