Annais Karenin

photo by Marisa Srijunpleang
Annais Karenin
Born in 1993 in Brazil, live in Shizuoka, Japan
PhD in Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil(2024)
Born in Brazil and based in Japan. Anais-karenin situates her practice in the intimate engagement with plants, incorporating border thinking, pre-colonial knowledge systems, and mythology. She conducts research and fieldwork across various fields, reflecting on colonialism, language, territory, and science. Her artworks capture plants-stones-things in a new way through comprehensive expressive methods that deal with the cultivation of plant systems, installation, sound, scent, and image, appealing to a sensory and critical approach