Artist bio
Anna is a Greek artist based in the Netherlands, where she has lived for the past eleven years. Her practice explores memory, absence, displacement, and belonging, drawing from her personal experience of moving between Greece and the Netherlands.
A lack of childhood memories has led her to become interested in memory as something fluid, elusive, and continually changing. She explores how memories can shift over time, and how what is remembered can become intertwined with what is imagined, forgotten, or reconstructed.
Working primarily with photography and collage, Anna is drawn to the transformative possibilities of combining and reworking images. She often cuts and pastes found imagery and pieces of paper onto her photographs, embracing the physical and tactile nature of the process. Collage offers her a space for play, experimentation, and intuitive image-making, where unexpected connections and new narratives can emerge.
Her work also reflects on migration and the experience of living between places and cultures. Through images, materials, and layers, she explores how a sense of place and personal history can change when we leave one place and make a life somewhere else.
Her work has been exhibited in the Netherlands and Greece.
A dialogue with the horizon (2023-2026)
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Analog collage
Horizon comes from the Greek word "ορίζω" which means to define and therefore to become.
Memory does the same. It defines not only our past but also our present and future.
It defines our identity.
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Mixed media collage
2026
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Mixed media collage
2026
Shifting.
Analog framed collage with foundfootage material.
2023
Edition 1/1
My memories begun in another country, with a different culture and a different climate. Making a new life in a different country feels like you need to create a new horizon from the very scratch.
Sometimes you're failing and sometimes you're feelling that you have shifted the horizon.
Untitled.
Analog framed collage with found footage material.
Edition 1/1.
Individual artworks
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Analog collage
(2020)
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Analog collage
(2021)
The Cut (2017-2018)
The found photos used in this project are sourced from newspapers and articles published during the 70s. They are on their own a strong documentation of their time. By using these photos, I am dealing with specific and real facts that occurred in the past. After the folding process, this realism/reality becomes totally fictional. By hiding and folding something else appears.
What do you see?
The crease signifies how close is reality with fiction and how thin the line can be between the bright and the dark side of ourselves.
Still Lives (2018-2019)
Objects can be much more than the physical space they occupy.
They can provide a timeless link to the past through the sensory
exploration of them and retrieve memories treasured in our
subconscious.
Photography can help to capture and preserve these links in an
eternal form.
Recently, academics are showing a growing interest in the emotional relationship of people to things, the way objects symbolize and record interactions and relationships and the way they preserve our memories – past and present.
These contribute in shaping our personalities, influencing our behavior and the way we react to various stimuli. As these change and evolve, so are we.
I use photography to transpose objects from their physical space to my images in an effort to create a record of emotions, relationships and recollections.
I am fascinated by memory and its mechanics and in my project I narrate the stories of the people I have met and interviewed and my personal experiences.
Documentation photos. Graduation festival, Royal Academy of Arts of The Hague, July 2019.
The project Still Lives consists of a publication and an audio file with the stories of the people involved. For privacy reasons the audio isn't online.
