🗓️December 23-27, 2014
BOREY ART CENTER
📍58, Liteyni Ave, Saint-Petersburg 191104 Russia
◆“Visionary Dreams #3264-68” Anna Frants’ Video and Audio Installations In The Gallery Halls◆
This year, Anna Frants’ annual exhibition at Borey Gallery is dedicated to the theme of anxiety. Is there a real source of anxiety, or is it something invented by our brain chemistry? There is no objective answer to this question—and there cannot be—when we are talking about an individual. However, there is a certain peace and stability in the world of one. That’s the point…
Like all of Anna Frants’ works, the installation is partly a fantasy and partly an instinctive immersion, woven together with programming and robotics.
Anna Frants is a multimedia artist based in New York. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and graduated from the Mukhina Academy of Art in 1989 with a strong classical education. She later expanded her interests into new fields such as computer graphics and animation.
Her accomplishments reflect the artist’s broad range of interests. Anna has received several top awards for best 3D computer animation at prestigious competitions, such as the AutoDesk Planet Studio Award. She has participated in and curated numerous art exhibitions in the U.S. and Russia, taught media and animation courses for years, and published articles on art. Her works can be found in the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and in private collections.
Descriptions of several works featured in the exhibition:
“Malfunction”
Looped animation, 4-channel audio, mock-up of a CRT screen, old tin cans.
Something has gone wrong in a system fine-tuned over years, now rusted with age.
“Anxiety”
Fabric, fans, programming
An allegory of anxious states—there is no love, no empathy—only anxiety.
“Weather Forecast” (exhibited together with the installation “Anxiety”)
Projection of a live internet stream from the Estonian coast of the Baltic Sea, real-time audio from the “Anxiety” installation, parabolic directional sound speakers.
The artificially generated soundscape of the kinetic installation “Anxiety,” captured in real time, provokes a sense of unease and demands an alternative—found in the eternal majesty of the sea, the forest, and its inhabitants.