Mini projector, video and sculpted clay
2024
Utopias do not need to exist to be real because they are fantasies informed by the critiques of the present. They are meant to live in either the future or the past through means of hope and nostalgia; a longing for something yet to happen or a loss of what was. This positions the present into a purgatory, caught between two worlds by unwilling to commit to the here and now. Any attempt to regain a utopia only illustrates how fabricated realities will never be anything more than reenactments. My work explores the uneasy tension between beauty and deception. In a religious sense, the desire to believe through disillusionment. Can beauty exist without the promise of utopia or divinity? Disillusionment itself then becomes an introspective experience.
Anna K Huff 