Anh Dao is an artist and film technician. Anh is from the west coast* of Canada. Anh makes images and sometimes films. Her practice involves thinking about the natural world and thinking about places. She engages in a research-based embodied practice with a focus on material experimentation. Anh is interested in ecofeminism, crip time, and diasporic narratives of longing. Currently based in Rotterdam, NL. * On the unceded Territories of the xwmǝθkwǝyǝ̓ m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Sǝlí̓lwǝtaʔ/ Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Refracted Reality
REFRACTED REALITY was a group exhibition with works by the 2021 graduates of the Lens-Based Media masters from Piet Zwart institute. “Instead of reconstructing our relationships with the world around us to create a new universal normal in the image of the old one, these lenses emphasize difference and diversity in our outlook onto the world. They are in fact refracted reality.”
Publieke Werken Rotterdam
Publieke Werken is an outdoor exhibition throughout Rotterdam with work by visual artists, designers, photographers, illustrators and image makers on the outdoor advertising boards. Works were displayed in the Maastunnel and throughout the city.
take a slow smooth breath
The Lens Based Media artists from Piet Zwart Institute seek to both address and offer alternative voices for dealing with these situations. In this light, the real is not necessarily what you perceive it to be. The nature of (un-)reality is unstable, transformative, absurd, fluid, and unreliable. It can take the shape of a gaze, a home, a morning routine, traffic, observations of nature and much more.