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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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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Artists, Writers, Musicians, and More Explore the Intersections of Art and Ecology

Avatar photo by Anna Souter May 25, 2020May 22, 2020

After the pandemic pushed back their exhibition, two curators teamed up to develop The Botanical Mind Online a new platform that makes effective use of parallels between plant communication and the internet.

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Joana Vasconcelos’s Bold, Feminist Sculptures Pop Against an English Landscape

Avatar photo by Anna Souter March 17, 2020March 17, 2020

Deliberately unsubtle, the central message of Vasconcelos’s work challenges the snobbery of the art world and champions the inclusion of women and outsiders.

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Artists, Designers, and Activists Address Climate Breakdown in a Pop-Up Exhibition

Avatar photo by Anna Souter January 27, 2020January 28, 2020

Depictions of Living imagines itself as an act of protest, touching on both the microcosm of individual actions and the macrocosm of the Anthropocene.

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Joy Labinjo’s Dynamic Process in Painting Her Family

Avatar photo by Anna Souter December 27, 2019December 19, 2019

Joy Labinjo’s intimate family portraits are based on her archive of photographs, as well as Instagram and Flickr, straddling online and offline worlds and forging links between past and present.

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