DALÍ GALLERY - ANNA MIELDS, SATURDAY 19TH OF JULY 2008 KL. 17, AKUREYRI, ICELAND HTTP://ARTISTSSTUDIO.BLOGSPOT.COM/
Anna Mields recent work deals with association themes of still life tradition and fetishism. By using reproduced fruits the preserved image presents a moment between freshness and decay. Often presented or displayed on structures suggesting containment the casts functions as strange decoration or obtains a function as character. Within the videos everyday food products occur alienated from its usual appearance and there specific movement is created through a performative act. Within those situations the former disregarded object gains meaning signifying different conditions of the human body.Theme of the show at the Gallerie Dali in Akureyri is a fictive woman character called Sibille Schmidt. Sibille is a woman aged around 40 living in the former GDR (East Germany) in the late 1970s. She is a future imagination based on bygone facts: a personified emotion and stereotype. The show consists of a set-up like an interior space creating in a subtle way the mental persona of “Sibille Schmidt”. Segments of interior and furniture are combined with banal objects. The objects take on a role in an “absurd” play by creating new associations all around the domestic space and oppressed feelings. The show window like situation will do its uncomfortable touch to those naked stripped bare attitudes of the intimate.
The installation refers to a foreign sensation that directly links the interior with the human body. As leftovers of a happening the objects will be ghostly witnesses of what hade happened. Developed into autonomous objects and displayed in the gallery they create the mental portrait of Sibille Schmidt.