SCULPTOR
ANNA-MAIJA REÉS

INTRODUCTION | WORDS

Inspiration is an intangible concept

For Anna-Maija Reés, the inspiration for her strikingly original sculpture comes from a wide range of sources, which could perhaps best be described as kinetic”. Anna-Maija´s work is characterized by movement. The movement of, and realtionship between, the human senses. The movement of natural forces. The movement of light, of dark and of half-dark. The movement that holds everything together and keeps everything apart.

She draws on the lightness of the air; the light air that separates solid from solid. And on the lightness of light, contrasting with the heaviness of the physical material with which surrounds it; they are disparate movements, yet inextricably bound to each other.

The energy within Anna-Maija´s sculptures and reliefs evokes a movement in response from those who are exposed to it. The viewers´ senses cannot help but flow almost in Pavlovian response as they separetly and jointly encounter the kinetic energy of her sculptures.

Anna-Maija translates the movement of light, the powerful, intense Mediterranean light and the weak almost translucent Scandinavian light, into form. Her work gives life to the light.

She builds, but nature provides her inspiration, and the unpredictability of nature is her moving force.

Sherelisa Bossi

THE GOLDEN SECRET