ANNA PESONEN IS A FINNISH-KARELIAN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST AND SCULPTOR BASED IN LONDON.
HER PRACTICE SPANS SCULPTURE, SOUND & SITE-RESPONSIVE SPATIAL INSTALLATION, ENGAGING WITH CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES INCLUDING MISINFORMATION-DRIVEN POLARISATION, SOLASTALGIA, AND SOCIOPOLITICAL FRAGMENTATION.
DRAWING ON HER FINNISH-KARELIAN HERITAGE AND INTERESTS IN COSMOLOGY, LAND ART, AND ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE, PESONEN PIONEERS THE APPLICATION OF POST-FUTURIST PRINCIPLES (EMPHASIZING REGENERATION OVER ACCELERATION AND CRITIQUING TECHNO-CAPITALIST STRUCTURES) TO CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE.
HER ONGOING COLLABORATIONS WITH AN ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST AND OTHER SCHOLARS EXPLORE THE PRESERVATION OF KARELIAN VOCAL TRADITIONS THROUGH PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOUNDSCAPES THAT CREATE ACOUSTIC SPACES FOR EMBODIED ENCOUNTER AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY.
BORN IN JÄRVENPÄÄ, FINLAND, PESONEN HAS LIVED AND WORKED ACROSS PARIS, TOKYO, HELSINKI, AND MALLORCA, DEVELOPING A DECADE-LONG CAREER IN CREATIVE DIRECTION SPANNING ART & FASHION.
IN 2023, PESONEN LAUNCHED HER DEBUT COLLECTIBLE MARBLE SCULPTURE SERIES 'DISCOURSE', SHOWCASED AT DESIGN MIAMI/ FAIR IN MIAMI AND PARIS, WHERE IT WAS SELECTED BY ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST AS ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST WORKS.
IN 2024, SHE WAS SELECTEF FOR A RESIDENCY AT THE ALVAR AALTO PAIMIO SANATORIUM IN FINLAND.
HER WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, DSCENE, WALL STREET JOURNAL CHINA, VOGUE ITALIA, AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS.
PESONEN'S INSTALLATIONS CREATE IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS THAT INTERROGATE CONNECTIVITY, AUTONOMY, AND THE HUMAN CONDITION IN A DIGITAL AGE, OFTEN INTEGRATING SONIC ELEMENTS THAT AMPLIFY THE CONCEPTUAL AND SENSORY DIMENSIONS OF HER SCULPTURAL INTERVENTIONS.
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