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Magnetic, serene and enlightened, GAMATA meditates imperturbably, its empty center is pure potentiality.

GAMATA

Humans always knew that their existence on planet earth, like the nonhumans organisms, is temporary. But since the emergence of patriarchy, the natural power structure in human eyes has taken turn. Nowadays, the human society no longer passively submits to the presence of Nature but rather takes the control of Nature on its own behalf. As Aristotle claimed, on earth, as on Mount Olympus, the man is the true creator—form, number, and movement—all come from him.
Through embroidery, writing, and sound, POST COΪTUM OMNE ANIMAL TRISTE examines the power structure between the human and the nonhuman. It suggests that only by reviving our mortality salience can we imagine alternative life philosophies, self-perceptions, and ways of being.

white piece
Handmade Embroidery
Cotton on Natural Linen
H.120 x W.50 cm

black piece
Handmade Embroidery
Cotton on Natural Linen
H.120 x W.50 cm

spoken word
00:05:02

Link: https://anisiaaffek.com/Post-Coitum-Omne-Animal-Triste



Post Coïtum Omne Animal Triste

Oil on canvas / Size: 70x100cm (27,5’’x39’’)  
Loved the theme and perspective on this one. It has an erotic feeling and was a pleasure to paint. 

Tootsies

Acrylic gesso and acrylic paint on inkjet printed rough 140gr/m² book printing paper
90 x 90 cm | 35.4 X 35.4 in

A shape of a body that cannot be said if it is formed by or divided into several parts. This new fragmented entity organized in an orthogonal composition, following the limits of the paper's surface, presents disruptions emanating from its body. They are like waves that propagate in the apparent black void, they want to extend through the vastness, but are interrupted along the path of light and consciousness.

DISRUPTED WAVES, 2020

Video loop installation, 2'19", color, sound.
Sound Design by Rafael Estrela

EXHIBITIONS
June 2020, 48 Stunden Neukölln Art Festival. Online video streaming and solo physical show, Gelegenheiten, Berlin-Neukölln. 
https://vimeo.com/433630898

The video installation is motivated by a critical examination of current social, political, and ecological paradigms and tries to awaken individual consciences, encouraging the reflection on profound future changes. Berlin is a city with an active voice, constantly questioning current models, not only through public demonstrations but also through private gestures, offering the ideal stage for a discussion of values, and the fundamental tools and openness to criticize our society. The artwork idea occurs after reading the book “Plantation Memories. Episodes of Daily Racism”, UNRAST VERLAG, 2018, by Grada Kilomba. A Portuguese writer, psychologist, and interdisciplinary artist, living in Berlin, whose works critically examine racism and post-colonialism, among other subjects. In this book, it is evident that, albeit often in a disguised way, false paradigms are still transmitted today as truths, and there is an urgent need to see the world with a critical sense. This cathartic experience triggers a personal reflection transmitted through this video installation. It is, therefore, a critique of white post-colonial society, so-called developed, and yet, based in an economy of inequalities, of induced power stratagems exploiting people and countries in an unfavorable situation, and based on the unsustainable use of environmental resources. The ongoing technological development, presented as a regulator of social equality, is, nevertheless, used to perpetuate ideologies of the past, and the apparent promising Boom is, in reality, a way of leaving us blind.
The installation aims to draw attention and discuss global issues, with repercussions at local and individual levels. Not only the human tragedy of refugee immigration, the constant violation of human rights throughout the world, the inevitable reality of climate change, but also the growing acceptance and strengthening of the far-right policies, such as in Germany the Alternative für Deutschland, that put at risk social and democratic values, namely, the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. The installation is presented at the festival in the form of a video, depicting a three-dimensional structure, in which moving images and repetitive sounds similar to mantras surround the viewer, creating an increasing atmosphere of introspection, motivating states of meditation, and seeking to capture the moment of self-awareness.Two appropriation states are present in the installation. In the first part, looking at the performance staged by two blindfolded characters, the observer has the growing sensation of becoming the protagonist of the action, until disturbing flashes of images appear, followed by total darkness, allowing a complete immersion in the experience. The flash images are intentionally distorted and inverted. They are negatives, alien to the reality of the characters presented in the video. They work as an instrument to generate a feeling of anguish in the viewer. Rather than pointing exact issues, they intend to allow free interpretation, alerting to the fact that we all have a vital role in a future change.

BIG WHITE LIES, 2020

2020 - Coloured pencil on paper

This project is an exploration of modern masculinity. Jonas, pictured on his own, partly nude and exposed speaks of isolation and vulnerability at its core. The red-hued figures featuring in my work present more as alien characters, rather than everyday humans you’d meet on the street – slightly too perfect, almost artificial, strangely unfamiliar. By giving my characters real-life names, I create a sense of intimacy between the character and the viewer – it’s an invitation to connect to the human inside the image and what their story could be.

Jonas


"Sol y Luna" was part of the exhibition Form/Function be One at Sirin gallery Copenhague.
This work represents the existence of cycles in life, cycles formed by the interplay of complementary opposites, mutually constituted and moving spirally. “El Sol“, denoted as masculine in the Spanish language and “La Luna“, denoted as feminine, also imply other interdependent opposites in life flowing harmoniously such as day and night, North and South, Summer and Winter.

Sol y Luna

How to make digital art without a computer? How to take a “real“ photograph that doesn’t look like a photograph? This is what I’m trying to do. I’m trying to imitate computer made images without using any computer. To do this, I build installations with wood in polygonal shapes on which I paste printed photographs. I then do a photo shoot of these installations with strobe lights. The result gives the impression of digitally manufactured images. But in fact, those photographs constitute pure photography, without any recourse to alteration or computer tampering. In my work, I explore the relationship between man and the machine and the reception / perception of images in the context of digitization and artificial intelligence. 

Visions of the Digital World

I constantly hear his voice inside my head,
judging right from wrong.
The Oppressor,
Demanding his family
to represent love and freedom.
However on the inside,
it was cramped
and fearsome.

Daughter of Helios

she told him the saddest story of her life and he asked her to turn around and smile 

acrylic paint over printed photo
21 x 21cm
2021

untitled n2

Name: Modern Day Thinker
Date: 2020
Size: 35 x 27 cm
Medium: Mixed media on paper (framed)
Category: Collage

Featured in the solo exhibition ‘American Poetry Through a Painter’s Eye’ (2020) in Athens, Greece. Inspired by the poem ‘[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]’ by E.E. Cummings and the notion that modern day society is falling in love with the idea of love than love itself. 

Modern Day Thinker

The project is part of the series ,Is it me or is it you?' (2021). It reflects on the personal experience of the artist with the neurological condition of synesthesia. 

True Blue

110x118 cm.
Acrylic, spray and gel on canvas.

God and I 

In this group of work, Liyu explores the alternative ways of image-making: By reconstructing the scenes from the film "The Living End" with abstract and shadeless painted shapes, he reveals the restless emotions embodied within the original composition and offers a radical and somewhat surreal storytelling. His work creates new space for speculation and then becomes a semiautonomous aspect of lived experience for the artist himself as much as the viewer. 

The Living End

51 inches x 46 inches
dye, oil and paper collage
2021

Mirror

ON THE BORDER, 2013-2014


What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.
                                                                                            Eva Rubinstein



Photobook (excerpts)
Silver Gelatin Prints

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