Life & Art

On the contrary, in the case of other art works, like Looking For The Blue Note, she makes room for an extensive technological research. Most of the times, these researches lead to the exploration and appropriation of new techniques. Asan often seeks out the limits of the material she deals with and regularly combines it with other media permanently challenging herself and the audience perception.

If the sound or the reference to sound is omnipresent in her work (for the artist, it holds the role of odour and flavour in Marcel Proust's thoughts), she explored different techniques related to glass, photography, engraving, textile, drawing… and intensively worked in different art schools in Belgium, France and Switzerland with artists coming from different fields. She also directed a short film about her work and several videos. When the artist is not working, she likes to travel to hunt images or to glean into the wild.

Ana Maria Asan’s art is not gratuitous or “borrowed” from others but based on a personal mythology: every object she makes recalls a previous one, a memory or an item from her private life: a person, an event, a feeling,… She always considered that the artist and the person cannot be dissociated, they make one in the oeuvre.

After her graduation in 2012, she sets up her studio in Brussels, conceives Ceramics and Sound Lab and embraces an international freelance artist career. Due to her interdisciplinary practice, she teaches art and lecture internationally.