‘Confined City’
‘More than ever, questions are being asked today about our urban lifestyles’ she comments. Living in an apartment, Anezo wanted to depict this period and the way lives have become sectioned out into buildings and down to each little box that urban dwellers have stored themselves away into. Looking towards these stacked up boxes and seeing them together as an organic, pulsing whole; a language and peculiar mass begins to grow, like vegetation.
‘Confined City’ was created in response to Anezo’s time in confinement during the Covid-19 crisis. Commenting on how confinement has influenced her practise, Anezo stated that this period has allowed her to devote herself fully to her practise. She uses the equipment readily available to her such as earth, and materials such as pens and paper which she can source from her local store.
Anezo found confinement an interesting challenge, as her practise usually includes a self-imposed system of constraints in order to find new possibilities in her work. Whether it’s with drawing or sculpture, her work is based on the repetition of a gesture; creating a pattern to form a whole image.
Her inspirations stem from her interest in biology and physics, as well as anthropology, which lead her to approach her work as she would scientific research. They embody a quality similar to that of Egyptian hieroglyphics and cuneiform tablets, while also being reminiscent of technical plans and industrial drawings.
She builds environments and considers her works as growing cultures, which she feeds every day with repeated markings and gestures.