Artist Statement
Ananké Asseff’s diverse body of work includes photography, installation, video, interactive pieces, sculpture, objects and site-specific works involving highly charged scenarios that evoke imagined and/or provoked fear and menace within individual and social constructs.
We know that language does not represent, but constitutes reality. Paranoia is Asseff’s theme; danger exists not as an occurrence, but as a hypothesis. The presumption of imminent danger loads her scenarios with tension. In early works, violence took on sexual iconography and was later embodied in social terms, where she photographed and filmed people who live with firearms in their houses (2005-2007).
Process Statement
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In 2011, situations or motifs already present in certain photographs evolved in new formats such as sculpture or installation, where a profound conceptual coherence unites diverse pieces. The threatening potential of an enormous wave of mud (Untitled, 2011) originates in the impression of a moment that is frozen in the same way as a photograph. While photographs like The Secret Had to Be Unveiled capture an explosive climax, in this huge installation-pushing the exhibition space’s physical limits-the cataclysm is held in suspense, like the bloodshed in the interiors with guns in the Potential series.
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