From A Safe Distance

"I collect images, memories and objects and use them as influences in my practice, making unexpected associations to create a fiction in its own right. My work is informed by the processes of hybridisation and the mistranslations that happen when elements from one culture travel and adapt to a new one. I make sculptures in wood, polystyrene and plaster and paint them to look like different surfaces. I like drawing connections between everyday materials, especially processed meats and stone, as they have a similar type of conglomerate composition.

Painting faux finishes is a way of questioning the hierarchy between materials as it has the added value of the handmade. I am particularly interested in faking materials as a way of faking status, in the same way migrating allows us to build our own autobiographies and myths when starting a new life in a new place. I also use the fake in my work in relation to stereotypes and authenticity as a reflection of my experience as a Latin American immigrant." - Ana Kazaroff, 2021

Accolades

Education: Currently a Decorative Surfaces Fellow at the Worshipful Company of Painters-Stainers in historical decorative surface techniques. Woodwork Fellowship at City & Guilds of London Art School.  MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School.

My work was recently exhibited at Eastside Projects, Division of Labour, Deptford X, the Griffin Gallery, Thames-Side Studios Gallery and b.Dewitt Gallery.

www.anakazaroff.com 
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