Anne Fehres

Revival Roadshow at the International Film Festival Rotterdam

Revival Roadshow at the International Film Festival Rotterdam

Installation overview News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installation News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installations overview News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installation News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installation News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installations overview News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installation News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installations overview News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installations overview News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Installation News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

Video projection of documentary about the project News From Home - Kaohsiung

Installation News From Home - Kaohsiung in Taiwan

The year is 2070 and you are about to be catapulted into an absurd, yet eerily plausible yoga session. Through an odyssey that transcends the bounds of conventional cinema, a captivating experiment unfolds, one that plunges its participants into profound contemplations on the interplay between humanity, nature and the wellness industry. At the heart of this journey, is a gilded figure who gracefully undertakes a series of poses under the guidance of an off-screen narrator. Through celestial cues, serenity takes a surreal turn, evolving into a paradoxical and ultimately rather uncomfortable experience. Unfolding disrupts the instructor's role as a spiritual guide, illuminating the delicate dance between humanity and the environment. Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy weave a narrative that challenges preconceived notions about our relationship to the natural world. By doing so, they invite viewers to reimagine their surroundings and actively respond to the climate crisis, through a distinctive, emotional approach that fosters empathy for both the human and the non-human in our existence. Their methodology combines visual stimulation, profound content and a dash of humour, providing a unique lens through which to explore the urgent issue of our time. – Vanja Kaludjercic Presented in collaboration with Art Rotterdam

The year is 2070 and you are about to be catapulted into an absurd, yet eerily plausible yoga session. Through an odyssey that transcends the bounds of conventional cinema, a captivating experiment unfolds, one that plunges its participants into profound contemplations on the interplay between humanity, nature and the wellness industry. At the heart of this journey, is a gilded figure who gracefully undertakes a series of poses under the guidance of an off-screen narrator. Through celestial cues, serenity takes a surreal turn, evolving into a paradoxical and ultimately rather uncomfortable experience. Unfolding disrupts the instructor's role as a spiritual guide, illuminating the delicate dance between humanity and the environment. Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy weave a narrative that challenges preconceived notions about our relationship to the natural world. By doing so, they invite viewers to reimagine their surroundings and actively respond to the climate crisis, through a distinctive, emotional approach that fosters empathy for both the human and the non-human in our existence. Their methodology combines visual stimulation, profound content and a dash of humour, providing a unique lens through which to explore the urgent issue of our time. – Vanja Kaludjercic Presented in collaboration with Art Rotterdam

The year is 2070 and you are about to be catapulted into an absurd, yet eerily plausible yoga session. Through an odyssey that transcends the bounds of conventional cinema, a captivating experiment unfolds, one that plunges its participants into profound contemplations on the interplay between humanity, nature and the wellness industry. At the heart of this journey, is a gilded figure who gracefully undertakes a series of poses under the guidance of an off-screen narrator. Through celestial cues, serenity takes a surreal turn, evolving into a paradoxical and ultimately rather uncomfortable experience. Unfolding disrupts the instructor's role as a spiritual guide, illuminating the delicate dance between humanity and the environment. Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy weave a narrative that challenges preconceived notions about our relationship to the natural world. By doing so, they invite viewers to reimagine their surroundings and actively respond to the climate crisis, through a distinctive, emotional approach that fosters empathy for both the human and the non-human in our existence. Their methodology combines visual stimulation, profound content and a dash of humour, providing a unique lens through which to explore the urgent issue of our time. – Vanja Kaludjercic Presented in collaboration with Art Rotterdam

Unfolding is an experimental short film, reflecting on the relationship between nature and humanity through an absurd VR yoga session from the year 2070, taking place in a surreal scene in which a figure undertakes a variety of bodily positions at the instruction of an off-screen narrator - a personification of air. The narrator of air reverses the typical human versus nature hierarchy. An engagement with the ‘other-than-human’ creates a meaningful opportunity to embrace imagination and reflect on previously ingrained assumptions towards the natural world. Through this film the audience is encouraged to reflect upon their previous perspectives towards nature as a passive agent. Instead, in this work, nature is acting upon them. FULL VERSION: 2023, 4K video, 14:41, color, with sound Directed & Written ANNE FEHRES Written & Edited LUKE CONROY

Unfolding is an experimental short film, reflecting on the relationship between nature and humanity through an absurd VR yoga session from the year 2070, taking place in a surreal scene in which a figure undertakes a variety of bodily positions at the instruction of an off-screen narrator - a personification of air. The narrator of air reverses the typical human versus nature hierarchy. An engagement with the ‘other-than-human’ creates a meaningful opportunity to embrace imagination and reflect on previously ingrained assumptions towards the natural world. Through this film the audience is encouraged to reflect upon their previous perspectives towards nature as a passive agent. Instead, in this work, nature is acting upon them. FULL VERSION: 2023, 4K video, 14:41, color, with sound Directed & Written ANNE FEHRES Written & Edited LUKE CONROY

Unfolding is an experimental short film, reflecting on the relationship between nature and humanity through an absurd VR yoga session from the year 2070, taking place in a surreal scene in which a figure undertakes a variety of bodily positions at the instruction of an off-screen narrator - a personification of air. The narrator of air reverses the typical human versus nature hierarchy. An engagement with the ‘other-than-human’ creates a meaningful opportunity to embrace imagination and reflect on previously ingrained assumptions towards the natural world. Through this film the audience is encouraged to reflect upon their previous perspectives towards nature as a passive agent. Instead, in this work, nature is acting upon them. FULL VERSION: 2023, 4K video, 14:41, color, with sound Directed & Written ANNE FEHRES Written & Edited LUKE CONROY

Titled "La Festa dei Nojesi," (The Feast of The ‘Nojesi ‘– the local people) this project is a monumental photomontage installation that delves into the multi-layered cultural fabric of Noepoli, Italy. Commissioned by Artepollino—an association established in 2008 to foster the cultural growth of this rural area, collaborating with artists including Anish Kapoor, Carsten Höller, and Giuseppe Penone—this work is the outcome of an immersive one-month residency, during which we engaged deeply with the locale’s rich history, gastronomy, and community rituals. Our practice thrives on community-based, co-creation methodologies, making Noepoli not just the subject but also the collaborator in the creative process. We anchored our approach in participant observation and intimate dialogues with the local populace—from winemakers to oregano farmers, from homemakers to artisans. Complementing our social exploration were visits to museums and historical sites, specifically capturing artifacts and visual memories from the Enotri civilization. This research culminated in a six-by-three-meter photomontage, a vivid layering of over 900 images—reminiscent of Enotri burial sites where items from pottery to food were layered as vignettes of life. The thematic veins of our work extend from antiquity to contemporary culture. Grapes scattered throughout the montage symbolize the ancient Enotri vineyards, while images of the Madonna di Costantinopoli procession stand as metaphors for ongoing community rituals. Importantly, the work avoids a prescriptive narrative, inviting viewers to find their own meaning within the tableau. It serves as an open-ended archive that engages the audience in a constant dialogue between the past, present, and the evolving future. “La Festa dei Nojesi” is, at its core, a celebration of Noepoli's diversity, its history, and its present. Just as Noepoli rests on a mountain amid clouds, each fragment of our montage emerges like a narrative layer from the nebulous memory of the community. It is a tribute to the soul of Noepoli, an homage to its people’s pride in their rich heritage, and a testament to the universal human yearning for connection to place and community.

As the common saying goes, “seeing is believing”. It seems this applies as much to physical experiences as it does to virtual ones. Whether visiting Linz in person or online, it is frequently visual perception that takes priority and informs one’s sense of place. What new realities might emerge, then, if the virtual and physical spaces of Linz are instead experienced via sound? In Virtual Listening the audience is invited to explore this question through a site specific, participatory sonic experience. In this 10-minute experience, the audience is blindfolded and transported by the artists through the FMR 23 festival site on a specially created vehicle. During this journey the audience encounters their surroundings via a geolocated narration and soundscape, generated from AI and artist’s encounters with Linz in both physical and virtual space.

News From Home is an ongoing project by the artist duo Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy, capturing overlooked stories from communities. The 10th edition of this project took place during a 4 week artist-residency in Mondovì, Italy, as part of the broader European project Dialog City. In News From Home, the artists were interested in exploring both the objective and subjective stories of the community and its members, relating to both a global and local perspective. To achieve this, during the residency the artists conducted field research in Mondovì - making observations, meeting the community and capturing photographs. Alongside this, the artists engaged with the community through various forms of physical and digital co-creation, inviting them to contribute their ideas and images related to considering Mondovì in the past, present and future. The outcome of this research and image collection was the creation of a large-scale 6x2 metre photographic composition. This work was presented on a wall in public space during the Hybrid Festival in Mondovì from July 20 — July 22. The final composition consists of almost one thousand individual elements, inspired by the multi-layered identity of Mondovì. These layers present a diversity of perspectives on Mondovì and include such elements as children’s drawings, historical images, photography of daily life submitted by the community, graffiti scratched into walls around the city and spontaneous staged portraits in the streets. Through this collision of diverse layers, the work celebrates Mondovì as a place where elements of the past, modern reality and future dreams constantly overlap, inviting the audience to consider diverse narratives from both a local and global perspective.

Series of public art works

Series of public art works

Series of public art works

Series of public art works

Textile Installation containing digitally printed fabrics and hand dyed fabrics. Includes custom created sun lounges

Outdoor public art work, digital print pasted to wall

‘Talk To Me’ is a humorous and thoughtful sound project which aims to explore the possibility for Human communication with the ‘Other Than Human’. It does so through the creation of various absurdist, fictional dialogues with objects and entities.

Naked Windows is an immersive, 360-degree video, a meta-work exploring and imagining the possible realities outside of the rectangular boxes presented in virtual meetings. In the video the audience occupies the role of a voyeur, invited by the artists to peer ‘backstage’ into their personal interior spaces while they engage in a virtual presentation. In this role, the audience must negotiate their own curiosity and voyeurism while exploring the boundaries between public and private, truth and fiction.

‘Talk To Me’ is a humorous and thoughtful sound project which aims to explore the possibility for Human communication with the ‘Other Than Human’. It does so through the creation of various absurdist, fictional dialogues with objects and entities.

‘Talk To Me’, a collaboration with artist Anne Fehres, is a humorous and thoughtful sound project which aims to explore the possibility for Human communication with the ‘Other Than Human’. It does so through the creation of various absurdist, fictional dialogues with objects/entities. ​ The first edition of this project was opened in August 2020 on Pampus Island in The Netherlands, hosted by Het Klimaatmuseum. For this exhibition we created fictional dialogues with three natural objects on the island. The interactive sound installation takes the audience on a journey through each object's life. The story of each object offers an examination of the human condition, ultimately touching on the basic things that make us who we are and encourage a greater imagination towards the earthly objects all around us.

'Solidarity Sky' is a virtual community driven artwork with the aim of bringing people together through sharing personal images of the sky. You are invited to become the artist in this project, contributing your own ‘piece of sky’ that will join a larger ‘virtual sky’ made up of thousands of images from across the world.

Tasman investigates the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. This figure is historically and culturally linked to each artist’s country of origin, a result of the 1642 voyage where Tasman accidentally ‘discovered’ the island now called Tasmania, the place where one half of the artist duo grew up. The exhibition expands the imagination around the journey of Abel Tasman. In doing so, the artists were inspired by the culture of the internet and ‘fake news’, where disinformation and fluidity around truth and authenticity has become the status quo. In a time where the truth has multiple perspectives, the artists want to give this mass of conflicting information a physical form. The works produced for the exhibition are regarded by the artists as ‘mind maps’ of contemporary existence that visualize the enormous flow of information and ideas. Each piece in the exhibition consists of hundreds of individual images that have been digitally brought together and later added to with a variety of manual techniques. What emerges from this approach, is a mythology that is full of contradictions and new interpretations, where Abel Tasman remains just as unknowable as ever.

Tasman investigates the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. This figure is historically and culturally linked to each artist’s country of origin, a result of the 1642 voyage where Tasman accidentally ‘discovered’ the island now called Tasmania, the place where one half of the artist duo grew up. The exhibition expands the imagination around the journey of Abel Tasman. In doing so, the artists were inspired by the culture of the internet and ‘fake news’, where disinformation and fluidity around truth and authenticity has become the status quo. In a time where the truth has multiple perspectives, the artists want to give this mass of conflicting information a physical form. The works produced for the exhibition are regarded by the artists as ‘mind maps’ of contemporary existence that visualize the enormous flow of information and ideas. Each piece in the exhibition consists of hundreds of individual images that have been digitally brought together and later added to with a variety of manual techniques. What emerges from this approach, is a mythology that is full of contradictions and new interpretations, where Abel Tasman remains just as unknowable as ever.

Tasman investigates the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. This figure is historically and culturally linked to each artist’s country of origin, a result of the 1642 voyage where Tasman accidentally ‘discovered’ the island now called Tasmania, the place where one half of the artist duo grew up. The exhibition expands the imagination around the journey of Abel Tasman. In doing so, the artists were inspired by the culture of the internet and ‘fake news’, where disinformation and fluidity around truth and authenticity has become the status quo. In a time where the truth has multiple perspectives, the artists want to give this mass of conflicting information a physical form. The works produced for the exhibition are regarded by the artists as ‘mind maps’ of contemporary existence that visualize the enormous flow of information and ideas. Each piece in the exhibition consists of hundreds of individual images that have been digitally brought together and later added to with a variety of manual techniques. What emerges from this approach, is a mythology that is full of contradictions and new interpretations, where Abel Tasman remains just as unknowable as ever.

The former leader of the Soviet Union, Vladamir Lenin, still occupies a prominent place in Petrozavodsk. This is due to his eleven metre tall statue overlooking the city, which sits close by the street named in his honor that runs from the railway station through the city to the lake. It is worth considering what the former leader might think of his current presence in the city. Certainly he would be comforted by the frequent visitors to his monument, taking photos and leaving behind a flower wedged between the granite stones. He might however have a different feeling towards the shops and businesses lining the street with his name. There is an irony in the street named after the famous socialist leader now being the home for many shops and businesses revelling in capitalism. Walking down Lenin Street today, one sees advertising for new Apple phones, people eating McDonalds burgers and shoppers carrying bags branded with the fashion outlets H&M. Amongst the busy rush of people, it is worth pausing for a moment to consider how unlikely this might have seemed not so long ago.

Statues play an important role in a community, symbolising who and what is valued. As such, statues are the first things to be torn down when a leader is overthrown or a society changes its values. Growing up around these statues, looking up from below, the young people of the community might use these people as inspiration for what they might be. In Petrozavodsk as they look up, they imagine a range of possibilities for themselves - politicians, poets, military personal and community leaders. For the young girls of this community however, they may have to use a bit more imagination as of the over 20 statues located around Petrozavodsk, only one is a woman.