17.12.20

De Anima is a duo exhibition of new photography and drawing from Casper Sejersen and Nina Fowler released as a digital exhibition to be experienced via www.de-anima.co.uk

Sejersen is known for his distinctive, unsettling still-life and portrait photography, whereas Fowler is known for a sumptuous drawing practice which interrogates themes of celebrity, power and sexuality through the lens of cinema.

De Anima documents an intimate dialogue between the two artists- revealed as an evolving, metamorphosis of ideas as well as a distinct crossover of themes. The audience is invited on a journey through the artists communication stream that charts email correspondence, works in progress, moving image and new drawing and photography.

The process of De Anima began during the global lockdown with Sejersen and Fowler exchanging a box of objects, secrets and archive material with one another. Fowler and Sejersen then created an original work each in response to the contents. A further two iterations from each artist were exchanged, with each artwork responding to the last.

Both Fowler and Sejersen carefully construct aesthetic worlds that, whilst, superficially allude to beauty and glamour are distilled with the quietly unsettling. Often these images are underpinned by uncomfortable notions of voyeurism, tragedy, secrecy, and human pain.

Presented in this way De Anima speaks of the potency and importance of digital, creative exchange in 2020 - transcending borders and the physical exhibition space to reveal surprising correlations between two seemingly different artists.