Artist
Anny Wass, born in Austria in 1983, received her diploma in design and sculpture, as well as in photography. Since graduating, she has built a multidisciplinary practice ranging from object and painting to design and photography, characterized by material investigation and a passion for color and detail. In her digital collages, multiplied object- and scale-up photography, the artist questions the relationship between people and material, cultural, environmental and sustainability topics.
The series of works, in which the artist uses herself as pictorial material and uses multiple images of herself as building blocks, is another crucial part of her work. In these photographic self-presentations, the artist Anny Wass alternates between the roles of object and photographer and documents the performative process. The result is a multi-layered change of perspective between subject and object, human and material, artist and viewer.
Various works by Anny Wass have been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain, Mexico, USA, Russia and China and can be found in a number of private and public collections. Her curatorial work is manifested in the founding of the independent art and exhibition project ‘Dessous’ / www.thedessous.com.