EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Keren Anavy
I am a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting, installation and performance. My interdisciplinary process and research-based practice scrutinize issues of the dynamic relationships between nature, culture and sites. I see landscape layered with social, political and personal narratives. My interest is how nature can function as a cultural agent in different societies.
I seek to dismantle the compressed capsule landscape-place-environment, each time from a different perspective. In recent years my main themes are The Garden as a symbol for cultivated nature and control and Water Channels as represented wildness, movement and scarce resources.
My paintings are the point of departure for my large scale site-specific installations and, or performance that operate on an architectural scale. In some I engage movement by create paintings that function as video and dance performance, offers a platform for questioning our environments.
Challenging the boundaries of painting often as a form of installation, my settings examine broader cultural contexts, exploring the connections between east and west, artificial and natural through a diversity of imagery, architecture, materials and techniques including oil, ink and watercolor painting, laser cutout and print.
