Anna Anundi (b.1990, they/them , Academy of Fine Arts 2021-) currently works mainly with painting and performance. What is being spun are milky relationships of experientiality and sensation that ripple, effervesce and tear. In the stream of liquid wandering essence, Anundi dreams of reorganizing hierarchical and destructive practices. He knows vulnerability, compassion and non-violent love as a rebellious force for change.
Anundi’s work Abbracciati ( Embrace yourself) is a glimpse of tenderness. It takes care. Makes a proposal about the reality of the future and reminds of its different levels, mirroring. It is curious and wants to ask. Admit your mistake and apologize. Recreate your skin and get another chance. It acknowledges sensitivity and forgets cynicism. Shatters boundaries and connects with satin ribbons. In its embrace, layered pain and big tears are released when you dare to say goodbye.
Samira Elagoz(he/him) is a Finnish-Egyptian artist and filmmaker. He has toured several international film, visual art and performance contexts with his work, and won numerous awards, most recently the Silver Lion award of the Venice Theater Biennale in 2022. Elagoz has dedicated his career to gender discourse, the aftermath of sexual violence, the male gaze, digital romance and intimate encounters. In his film work, he utilizes his performing arts background and creates a distinctive way of making documentary fiction. What is significant about his works is that they do not feature actors, and all the subjects of the works are men.
Z Walsh is a transgender artist and photographer based in Brooklyn, specializing in portraiture. In the creative communities of New York and Los Angeles, he is known for his bare and honest depictions of his subjects and himself. Creative in production, creative direction, photography and modeling, Z is the voice of his generation, but highlighting trans voices, especially trans masculinity, which is often underrepresented, is especially important to him.
