Anne Scott Wilson | Untitled #2

Artist Statement

Wilson's engagement with technology is crucial to her artistic practice. Her tools are mechanical, automated, and manual and influenced by years of dance training and performing. Her hybrid use of mediums, embrace the tangible while both utilizing and challenging the expanding role of AI to decelerate production. The digital domain inspires her material creations, leading to the reprinting of photos or the repurposing of failed experiments.

 In recent works, Wilson delves into the transformative journey of a photograph from pinhole to digital to physical form, investigating montage, cutting, and reshaping. She places a significant emphasis on surfaces, exploring their role in the interaction with light within photographic practice and highlighting the immediacy of the moment through live reflections. The form of the works is in a state of constant flux, both in their creation and installation, momentarily altered by the dynamic effects of viewers’ movement and light.

Artist Bio

Anne Scott Wilson’s work tests the thresholds of light, data and transcendence.

Drawing from ballet’s exploration of transcendence through repetition, endurance, and physical commitment, Anne’s work delves into the paradox of inhabiting a physical body while yearning to surpass its limitations—confronting themes of mortality in the process. Whether working with video, AI, painting, installation, writing, or photography, she utilizes the tools available to her with a sense of spontaneity. Play is central to her approach, characterized by embracing failure. Through this iterative process of making and experimentation, her ideas are gradually revealed, evolving organically into her art.