ANNA PESONEN STUDIO | POST FUTURE

ANNA PESONEN (B. 1988, FINLAND) IS A FINNISH-KARELIAN ARTIST BASED IN LONDON. PESONEN’S INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE INCLUDES SCULPTURE, PARTICULARLY IN MARBLE AND STONE, SITE-SPECIFIC, ARCHITECTURAL AND SOUND INSTALLATION. CENTRAL TO HER PRACTICE IS THE PHILOSOPHY OF ‘POST-FUTURISM'; A PARADIGM THAT PESONEN IS PIONEERING IN CONTEMPORARY ART. IT CHALLENGES THE NOTION OF HUMAN BEINGS AS ISOLATED ENTITIES AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT AND INSTEAD CALLS US TO EXPAND AND REDEFINE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN, TODAY AND TOMORROW. HER WORK ENGAGES WITH CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES SUCH AS MISINFORMATION-DRIVEN POLARISATION, SOLASTALGIA AND SOCIOPOLITICAL FRAGMENTATION, WHILE EXPLORING THEMES OF CONNECTIVITY, AUTONOMY AND THE EVOLVING HUMAN CONDITION IN A DIGITAL AGE. IT IS INFORMED BY A SUSTAINED INTEREST IN EXISTENTIALIST ARCHITECTURE AND ITS RELATION TO THE QUEST TO UNDERSTAND OUR PLACE WITHIN AN INFINITE COSMOS, AND TO LAND ART. HER COMMITMENT TO THESE ETHOS IS FURTHER DEMONSTRATED THROUGH HER STUDIO, 'POST FUTURE', WHICH SERVES AS THE PLATFORM FOR HER INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS. HER DEBUT BODY OF WORK TITLED ‘DISCOURSE,’ INCLUDING TWO MARBLE SCULPTURES TITLED ‘DIALOGUE SEAT’ AND ‘INTROSPECTION SEAT,’ WAS EXHIBITED IN 2023 AT DESIGN MIAMI/ PARIS AND MIAMI EDITIONS. THE WORK EXPLORED THEMES SUCH AS MISINFORMATION RESULTING IN GROWING POLARISATION. ‘DIALOGUE SEAT’ WAS FEATURED ON THE ‘BEST OF DESIGN MIAMI/ PARIS OF 2023’-LIST IN ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST FRANCE. PESONEN STARTED HER CAREER IN FASHION AS A STYLIST AND IMAGE DIRECTOR, WORKING WITH A DIVERSE ROSTER OF LONG-STANDING CLIENTS AND PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS MAISON MARGIELA MM6, NIKE, MODERN MATTER AND DAZED & CONFUSED AMONG OTHERS. HER ARTISTIC PRACTICE AND WORKS HAVE BEEN FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS INCLUDING DOMUS (GUEST EDITED BY BJARKE INGELS), DSCENE, ARTNET AND OTHERS. PESONEN HAS LIVED AND WORKED IN TOKYO (JAPAN), PARIS (FRANCE), MALLORCA (SPAIN), PIETRASANTA (ITALY), LONDON (UK) AND IN JÄRVENPÄÄ AND HELSINKI (FINLAND).