Anna Choutova is a visual artist and curator based in London. She is currently the Research Fellow at the Slade School of Art and the founder of curatorial platform Bad Art Presents.
Anna’s practice is best described as a browse through a forgotten section of a Duty Free store. She fixates on items that glitter but ain’t gold, researching their societal significance and cultural connotations. She is fascinated by the things we consume in an effort to alter our identity. Her work often comments on the power of food and food culture, especially its destructive elements.
Anna dissects her various obsessions, whether it be a cigarette or a snack, through repetition and geometry.
She is an Eastern-European immigrant who was brought up in the west, in the midst of the red paranoia on one end and the western rose-tinted fetishisation on the other. Anna’s practice lays somewhere in between, approaching pop and plentiful with soviet greyness. She has put herself between Malevich and McCarthy and is on a mission to marry destitute bleakness with inconceivable excess in her own practice.