Anastasia Mina is always already

How posterity is embedded in society’s cultural routines and how it manifests in notes on the back of photographs carefully wrapped in tissue are some of the topics dissected by Anastasia Mina in her ongoing exhibition at Eins gallery Always Already, in which she layers, magnifies, prints, embellishes and marks these elements into ambiguity.

Interested in images, Anastasia started a method of a kind of personal historicising. Curator and writer Ashley Conery wrote about this work: “Having previously worked with found photographs, over the last year she has begun a study of her own family’s archives. Working over them with pencil and charcoal her process follows an internal logic resembling that of a checklist.”

Mina does not desire or imagine that it’s possible to reveal cultural truths buried within a snapshot; what she hides behind the opacity of her pencil marks, is her own truth.

For Mina, images function as a material trigger of cultural sensibilities that she adopts or rejects throughout her process of deconstructing them. Her uncertainty about the actual context of these images within her own family history, lost with the memories of their subjects, allows her this immediate relationship with their content.

By making choices about what to obscure, she endeavours to create her own cultural framework of interpretation, independent of her inherited perspective. A process she hopes causes an awareness within the viewer about decisions involved in perception, which make fixed meaning impossible.

Always Already
First solo exhibition by Anastasia Mina. February 22- March 30. Eins Gallery, Limassol. Opening night 7.30pm. Wednesday – Friday: 4pm-8pm and Saturday: 11am-4pm. Tel: 99-522977

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