Anais-karenin
As deep as breathing
“As deep as breathing” mixes photographs and AI-generated images in which elements are transformed by the action of onsen minerals, both physical and digital. Printed on a transparent surface, the images express the uncontrollable and mysterious power of transformation to which everything is subject, portraying displacement and deterritorialization through the force of the waters and minerals that travel through space in a continuous flow belonging nowhere.
Born in Brazil and based in Japan. Anais-karenin situates her practice in the intimate engagement with plants, incorporating border thinking, pre-colonial knowledge systems, and mythology. She conducts research and fieldwork across various fields, reflecting on colonialism, language, territory, and science. Her artworks capture plants-stones-things in a new way through comprehensive expressive methods that deal with the cultivation of plant systems, installation, sound, scent, and image, appealing to a sensory and critical approach.
