Anna Perach Dismembered Venus, 2023

Anna Perach (b. 1985) lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MFA in fine art (distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London (2020). In 2024 Perach presented an institutional solo show with Gasworks, London, UK. Other solo shows include ADA gallery, Rome, IT (2023), Edel Assanti gallery, London, UK (2022) and Herzliya Museum of contemporary art, Herzliya, IL (2021). Perach has exhibited in international art fairs such as Artissima with ADA gallery where she won the Carol Rama award, Arco Madrid with The Ryder gallery and Art Cologne with Sommer gallery. Significant group exhibitions include Shamans, Communicate with the invisible, Mart, Trento, IT (2023), Threads, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2023), Unruly bodies, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2023) and Antigone, Richard Saltoun gallery, London, UK. Anna was one of the winners of the Hopper prize (2023),The Ingram Prize and the Gilbert Bayes award (both in 2021). Recent publications include The Guardian and The Art Newspaper.

Perach’s work is featured in A PROFECÍA. Curated by Filipka Rutkowska as a continuation of Casa Filipka – an ongoing project organized together with Her Clique – A PROFECÍA is centered on an envisioned future through the female gaze; one that enables a more empowered, speculative relation to both time and space, plant, landscape, and animal; one that breaks the brutality of dualistic thinking and binary structures and replaces them with a spectrum, acknowledging and honoring the and rather than the or. Following principles of transfuturism, and emerging from histories like that of Casa Susanna, this exhibition is a frame for repositioning one's own body as the intermediary for a more intuitive knowledge; a knowledge that doesn’t make assumptions but rather listens, looks, smells, tastes, hears, feels, orients, and balances. A knowledge that doesn’t require eyes for seeing but presupposes sentience, non-human intelligence, time, cycles, and the fluidity of being (in its broadest possible definition), and exists within a continuum of experiences and knowledge, through-out (non-linear) time. And as this knowledge becomes accumulated and disseminated, and as personal mythologies merge with predominant norms, feminist histories, ecologies and states of being, through rose-tinged utopian lenses we divine a centered space that is Other – healing, forgiving, holistic, transparent, and visible – in and of itself.