image-event
Tanoa Sasraku
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland
b. 1995
Anastasia Xirouchakis
Lives and works in London, UK
b. 1994
image-event is a dialogue between Tanoa Sasraku and Anastasia Xirouchakis, where memory, landscape, and the re-animation of the human body occur via photographic and sculptural stand-ins.
Sasraku's work results in sculptures that capture sites embedded within the past—both personal and geological. Xirouchakis’ photographs use objects from her surroundings to investigate sight as both a truthful and unreliable layer of information.
Both artists are interested in the meaning imbued into an object or silhouette in the absence of its origin. It is an attempt to arrange corporeal and conscious dispersal, a yearning for a container for something that no longer exists.
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Born in 1995 in Plymouth, UK
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland2021-2024
Fine Art Postgraduate, Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK2015-2018
BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK -
Solo and two-person exhibitions
2024
image-event, presented by image-event: Tanoa Sasraku and Anastasia Xirouchakis, curated by Will Vetch, Inspection Pit, West Sussex, UK2023
Man Engine, Vardaxoglou, London, UK
Liths, PEER, London, UK2022
Terratypes, Spike Island, Bristol, UK2021
A Tower to Say Goodbye, Chelsea Sorting Office, presented by General Release, London, UKGroup exhibitions
2024
Tituba, who protects us?, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
AUERBACH, HAMANA, HEPWORTH, PAGE, SASRAKU, Ben Hunter Gallery, London, UK2023
Unbuild: a site of possibility, Drawing Room, London, UK -
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Born 1994 in Troy, NY
Lives and works in London, UK2024-2027
MA Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK2012-2016
BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI -
Solo and two-person exhibitions
2024
image-event, presented by image-event: Tanoa Sasraku and Anastasia Xirouchakis, curated by Will Vetch, Inspection Pit, West Sussex, UKGroup exhibitions
2024
Parent Object, Vardaxoglou Gallery, London, UK -
axirouch@gmail.com
Selected works
image-event, Untitled, 2024, silver gelatine print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.), framed: 20.6 x 25.8 cm, edition 1 of 3
image-event, Untitled 2, 2024, silver gelatine print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.), framed: 20.6 x 25.8 cm, edition 1 of 3
Anastasia Xirouchakis, Engulfment, 2023, silver gelatine print, found frame, 24.9 x 20.8 cm (9 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
Tanoa Sasraku, Untitled, 2024, found sun damaged memory cards housed in custom ebonised walnut frame, UV protective glass, 25 x 28 x 4.5 cm
Anastasia Xirouchakis, Silver shape, 2022, ilver gelatine print, 21.1 x 29. 8 cm (8 1/4 x 11 3/8 in.)
Tanoa Sasraku, Vest Front R, 2023, newsprint, tailor's chalk, graphite, fixative spray, thread, St Ives seawater, 94.5 x 59 x 4.5 cm
Anastasia Xirouchakis, Bird-lung, 2023, X-ray, photogram, 45.8 x 63 cm (18 x 24 3/4 in.)
Tanoa Sasraku, Lith 3, 2022, inkjet prints on aluminium-mounted Kozo paper, encased in painted OSB box frame, 220 x 125.5 x 40 cm
Anastasia Xirouchakis, Spiral, 2023, silver gelatine print, photogram, 29. 8 x 21.1 cm (11 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Tanoa Sasraku, Mire Horse, 2022, newsprint, thread, toner, foraged Bideford Black pigment, foraged Yarner Wood orange pigment, fixative spray, Dartmoor bog matter, 41.7 x 26.5 x 10.5 cm
Anastasia Xirouchakis, Lung angel, 2023, X-ray, photogram, 45.8 x 63 cm (18 x 24 3/4 in.)
Tanoa Sasraku, Mire Horse, 2022, newsprint, thread, toner, foraged Bideford Black pigment, foraged Yarner Wood orange pigment, fixative spray, Dartmoor bog matter, 33.6 x 30.3 cm