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Anna Souter

Anna Souter is an independent art writer and editor based in London. She is particularly interested in sculpture, women's art, and the environment.

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In Venice, a Show Draws Connections Between Colonialism and Marine Ecology

by Anna Souter June 14, 2022June 14, 2022

The Soul Expanding Ocean at TBA21–Academy Ocean Space in Venice’s Chiesa di San Lorenzo brings together two artists with different but complementary ways of engaging with oceanic histories and ecologies.

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The Monstrous Beauty of Louise Bourgeois’s Late Textiles

by Anna Souter May 9, 2022May 9, 2022

The Woven Child at London’s Hayward Gallery is a moving examination of Bourgeois’s fabric sculptures, drawing out themes of motherhood, gender, identity, and trauma.

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Venice’s Sámi Pavilion Is a Coup for Indigenous Artists

by Anna Souter April 17, 2022April 19, 2022

Far from empty wildernesses, the ancestral lands of the Sámi people in the European Arctic are ecologically diverse sites of culture, care, and collective endeavor.

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A Painter Takes a Collaborative Approach to the Portrait

by Anna Souter February 9, 2022February 10, 2022

Gisela McDaniel captures the voices and memories of her sitters and offers them the opportunity to narrate their own histories.

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At Tate Modern, an Installation Blurs the Line Between Technology and Biology

by Anna Souter November 16, 2021November 16, 2021

Anicka Yi’s In Love with the World is an attempt to break down the distinctions we make between plants, animals, micro-organisms, and technology.

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Sexism and Colonialism Intertwine in the Story of a Toxic Relationship

by Anna Souter October 13, 2021October 13, 2021

In Paul, Daisy Lafarge delicately unpacks the power plays and mind games of a toxic relationship, with an emphasis on society’s — and art’s — silencing of women.

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The Indigenous and Female Roots of Harvesting Flax

by Anna Souter September 13, 2021September 13, 2021

Christine Borland looks at one of the oldest known forms of fabric in the world.

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Unraveling Rodin’s Artistic Mystique

by Anna Souter July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

A corrective to the sculptor’s self-aggrandizing, The Making of Rodin draws attention to the hidden figures who made his work possible.

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Veronica Ryan’s Botanical Musings on Migration

by Anna Souter June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

For the Montserrat-born artist, seeds are both a metaphor for and a physical continuation of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.

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Spilled Milk and Other Acts of Protest Visualize the Politics of Food Production

by Anna Souter May 27, 2021May 27, 2021

Inspired by the farmers’ protests Rafael Pérez Evans witnessed as a child in Spain, the works in Handful draw attention to the deliberate wedges driven between producer and consumer.

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“Salmon” Pink and Other Relics of Pre-Industrial Agriculture

by Anna Souter May 17, 2021May 17, 2021

As the Turner Prize-nominated duo Cooking Sections forcefully reveals, it’s not just salmon that are changing color due to harmful agricultural techniques.

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An Invitation to Get Caught in the Spider’s Web

by Anna Souter June 2, 2020November 5, 2020

Tomás Saraceno’s retrospective exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi gives a closer look at the lives and creations of spiders to reveal how completely ecologies are entangled and spaces are shared with our nonhuman companions.

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