This performance was part of Speculative Bodies, an evening of screenings and performances held as part of the exhibition Unruly Bodies. The event proposed that the body is not a unified whole, or opposed to nature. The works included excavated myth and archive to enact speculative figures that reach through history, troubling categories of the ‘human’, and unseating normativity. 

Anna Perach (b. 1985, Ukraine) is an Israeli artist living and working in London, UK. She holds an MFA in fine art (distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London (2020). In 2022 Anna presented a solo show with Edel Assanti in London and took part in Artissima with ADA gallery where she won the Carol Rama award. She has exhibited internationally at galleries including: Richard Saltoun (London, UK), Sommer gallery (Basel, Switzerland) and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herzliya, Israel). In 2021 Anna took part in Arco Madrid 2021 with The Ryder gallery and received the Ingram prize award. In 2020 she received a studio award with Sarabande, The Lee Alexander McQueen foundation as well as the Gilbert Bayes award. Recent publications include Artforum and Art Maze Mag.

Performance credits:

Mistress of the Desert – performance, 2023.

Movement director: Luigi Ambrosio

Performers: Anna Guzak and Maria Sole Montacci

Sound: Yifeat Ziv and Mohammed Rowe

The performance was supported by Fireflies Projects. 

Video Production by Leon Dee for Kunstraum Productions

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