Anna Koutsafti is a multidisciplinary Greek artist currently working in Glasgow, Scotland. Her works intertwine text and images, form and meaning. Anna delves into dystopian themes, using 'poor' images to express themes of generalized anxiety and desire in an uncertain digital age. These images, scavenged online or created with unconventional methods like burner phone cameras, lose their original context to become abstract representations of reality, interrogating the oftentimes dystopic sovereignty of the HD digital world and its pervasive influence on contemporary life. Her autofictional work focuses on the insecurities driven by current events, the uncertainty of existence, and the spectres that haunt intimacy.
Anna Koutsafti holds a BA in Fine Art from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges and an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. She has participated in a collective printmaking residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. In 2022 she was awarded the EU Saltire Scholarship.
Her work has been featured in multiple exhibitions, such as:
On Geoffroy Tory at the Bibliotheque des Quatres Pilliers in Bourges, France, in 2019.
Orbiting Modernity at Tranzit Cluj in Romania, 2022.
Rinse (online exhibition), in 2021
MFA Interim Show at Florence Street School in Glasgow, UK, in 2022.
Labyrinth: how many times? at the New Glasgow Society in Glasgow, UK, in 2022.
Do Something at the Barnes Garage in Glasgow, UK, in 2023.
MFA Degree Show at Florence Street School in Glasgow, UK, in 2023.
Offest at New Alchemy Experiment in Glasgow, UK, in 2023