Anna Gibson

 

My artwork is rooted in exploring women's bodies and their relationship with our cultural, racialized preferences and social environment. Focusing on insecurities, from both personal and external experiences as well as popular culture, my artwork explores and exposes the vulnerabilities women have about their differences from each other and how they seek to mentally and physically mask or morph their bodies, in an obsessive process of evolving, using various “beautification” methods to achieve acceptance socially and internally.

Questioning the constant state of re-evaluation of the ‘self’, I’m creating landscapes driven by internalized experiences, using various nostalgic elements as a form of escape and reprieve from a demanding reality, for these altered figures.

Channeling imagery from the myth of Narcissus who drowned trying to capture his reflection in a fit of self-obsession and the daffodils that bloomed from his death, as well as imagery representative of nostalgia both from my own experiences and others, to create these dark surreal gardens.