www.annaparisi.site
Artist BioAnna Parisi is a Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn. She earned a BA in communications from Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-RJ) and is currently a second-year Parsons Fine Arts MFA candidate. Anna has exhibited in Brazil, the United States and Europe.
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Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn working with sculpture and performance. My steel sculptures investigate the traumatic erasure of black and historically oppressed bodies in a Brazilian context. The rust stands as a metaphor for the structural violence afflicting racialized bodies; the natural process of corrosion differs from the experience that these bodies endure as of their first encounter with Othering. I expedite the corrosion of metal to reveal layers of violence, oppression, and neglect – and with that, deconstruct racism by pushing the material into decomposition. I am interested in exploring resistance to structural violence through gestures that would dismantle racial hegemonies and create dialogue between African Diasporas.