• ANNAF (Vergnolle Anna)

    Art is a guarantee of sanity – L. Bourgeois

    WHFF We Have Fucking Fear

    WHFF We Have Fucking Fear

    WHFF We Have Fucking Fear

    WHFF We Have Fucking Fear

    WWHFF We Have Fucking Fear

    I will not make any more boring art – J. Baldessari

    ARTWORKS

    WHFF We Have Fucking Fear
    01/01/2020 day: 1, 1 stamp
    15/01/2020 day: 15, 120 stamps
    14/03/2020 day: 74, 2775 stamps
    21/03/2020 day: 81, 3321stamps

    materials: red acrylic paint on 81 white A4 sheet (110 gr) 81 sheets the 21/03/2020 (one more each day from the 31/12/2019) (work in progress)
    Size: 21x29,7 cm each

    On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City, China. From January 1, every day, I stamp a sheet of white paper using blood red paint. Each day passing, I work on a new sheet, and apply one stamp for each day since the beginning of the epidemic. On day 80, I have 80 sheets, the first one with only one stamp, second one with two stamps... and the last one with 80 stamps. By additional the stamps, I made 3240 stamps from the beginning. A vidéo is compiling all my paintings. Situating the present in time is the same as situating our own consciousness in existence. The elusive present would simply be materialized by the blood red circle stamped. An immersive installation will appear... I'll try to continue each day this work, until the end of the épidemic or until I'can't do it in 24h of my poor day life. WORK IN PROGRESS.
                              
                                                                                                                                          
    I will not make any more boring art – J. Baldessari
    Art is a garantee of sanity - L. Bourgeois
    acrylic on canson's sheet (300gr), 50x50cm

    To name or to count is not to freeze. Naming or counting something doesn't make it stop evolving, changing, it made me wonder : how do you connect telling and doing ? And how remember ? I started with “manifest-formulas” from works named "I have nothing to say and” (part quote of John Cage). This serie of paintings develop a sort of writing activity : the paintings are produced using a not explained code. I try to make different worlds and styles collide. During this troubled period, I choose several quotes from different artists because they refer to ideas of understanding (or misunderstanding) of the visual, of the réality or simply it's my affect of the actual situation...

    ARTIST
    ANNAF (Vergnolle Anna), Réunion Island - FRANCE
    I Live and work on Réunion Island, a french oversea island in Indian Ocean. I am working with different mediums (painting, drawing, volume, photo, video, art installation ...). I developp poetry around pre-existing shape, originating from nature, architecture or science, characterized with tenuous aesthetic and language poetry. I use and play with writing, translating notions and diverses semantic worlds (from populous to academic). Memory and the process of transformation through time is central in my work. Reunion Island, a former French overseas colony, influenced my work greatly. I seek a «topoesia», a poetic topographic representation. Public collections in Reunion Island already display my work : FRAC, Artothèque and St Pierre's Museum. "Mikado" is an award winning sculture for the roundabout G. Brassens in Saint Denis.