Ananké Asseff

Ananké Asseff is an Argentine visual artist, whose diverse work includes photography, installation, video, interactivity, sculpture, object and site specific, creating dense scenarios that evoke fear and threat, imagined and / or promoted, in social and personal construction. The artist’s premise is that language does not represent reality but rather constitutes it. In Asseff’s work, danger is present but not as an event, but as a hypothesis: it is the assumption of its imminence that loads the images with tension. From the fragile and accusatory exposition of the solitary body itself to the tacit violence of society and the poetic intimacy of nature, Ananké Asseff has been dealing in her photographic work with the complex and paradoxical links between action and withdrawal, containment and provocation, stillness and unease. Her series appeal to technical resources where the geometric shapes, the glazes generated by the color planes that intervene in the images, create scenarios in a conceptual and metaphorical key where they seek to create enigmatic, cryptic photographs that jeopardize documentary objectivity and the supposed innocence of the image since it always implies a certain ethical complicity of the gaze. Campos de realidad I, II & III” (2014-2016), “Soberbia” (2016), “Un lugar otro” (2019-in process) are some of the series that give credit of a work with high power of synthesis between the forceful content of the images and the abstract interventions, shielding the viewer from accessing to them entirely. Asseff’s work maintains a recognizable aesthetic coherence beyond the topics or formats she uses, related to her personal search to influence the viewer, impressing him, investigating the relationship between how we look, feel and live and questioning the device and nature of the personal, social and media constructions that influence the ways of seeing.