Anna Samara

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

Drawing from scientific sources and technologies such as thermal imaging and photography, I aim to bring new questions with respect to the politics of representation within traditional media. The scenes depicted in the paintings come from a range of different sources; nature & ecology documentaries, pop culture, museum archives, internet archives, as well as imagined subjects.The composition of the paintings––sometimes overlapping one another, sometimes spaced apart––creates a psychological interface which highlights the reciprocal relationship between the one who sees and the one who is being seen. The depiction of the dynamic relationship of “predator and prey” operates as a way to think further of what it means to observe and be observed, and the complexities that this bears in the age of social media and the constant surveillance of the self.

Artwork