Anais-karenin

Profile

Born in 1993 in Brazil. Lives and works in Ito (Shizuoka). Concluded her PhD in Visual Arts, University of São Paulo in 2024.
Anais-kerenin’s practice is intimately engaged with the liminal states of plants-stones-entities—evoking them as ancestry. Inquiring historical heritage of contemporary relations with the matter, she incorporates peripherical knowledge systems, intuitive communication, and transduction methodologies. Translating herbal substances into vibrational sounds and installations, she critically reflects on history, language, territory, and science.

Recent exhibitions:
2024 “Becoming Feral,” Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
2024 “Outras Paisagens,” Museum of Contemporary Art Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
2024 “Gunma Artist in Residency Exhibition,” The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2024 “The Senses of Plants,” Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
2023 “Things named ‘things’,” The 5th Floor, Tokyo

Awards
2024 ATAMI ART GRANT (Shizuoka, Japan)
2023 Resonance Program (grant from Osaka Kansai Expo, support of the Embassy of Brazil)
2021 QOL MATSUDO PARADISE AIR AWARD 2021 (Chiba, Japan)

About works

Anais-kerenin’s project reflects on AI technology from an ontological and epistemological perspective, driven by plants and sound transductions. It investigates the intersection of technology and ancestral knowledge while acknowledging its colonial legacy by examining AI’s role in data colonialism and environmental impact. This will result in a project for an immersive installation that interrogates technology’s potential to reconstitute cosmological connections while exploring the paradox of its extractivist force.