Photoworks and Project Artworks have commissioned Anna Farley for In Focus, to make a new work for an upcoming solo exhibition and a week after the opening, Anna takes over our Instagram account.
The commission is part of EXPLORERS, a three-year programme led nationally and internationally by Project Art Works. The exhibition This gives you a score of 0 opens at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, East Sussex, on 19 October and runs until 3 November 2019.
Anna, who is based in London, self identifies as a neurodiverse autistic adult and has made a new body of photographic work reflecting on her own experiences and has created it with support from Photoworks and artist mentor, Becky Warnock.
Using photography and sculpture, Anna’s commission brings methods of alternative communication to the forefront, by creating a mass of ‘infinity fidget cubes’. From hours of footage taken whilst wearing a GoPro camera, Anna extracts stills hinting to where, when and how her autism may be visible. Her work highlights the barriers and her needs in domestic, work or social moments. These then bind the cubes into objects for touching and experiencing the images using repetitive behaviours. The work is a reaction to her problematic experiences of the UK benefit system. The cubes attempt to establish visual responses to questions from forms and applications of her Personal Independence Payment and its impact on her life and those around her.
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