Artist Talk with Anna Semenoff

Sculptor Anna Semenoff is interested in thinking about how the world we make makes us in turn. In this artist talk, Anna Semenoff will discuss the ideas and process behind her Project Space installation , and her exploration of the relationship between architecture and perception.

Anna Semenoff is a sculptor based in Calgary, AB. located on Treaty 7 Territory. She completed her BFA in sculpture from the Alberta University of the Arts (2019), and her MFA in fine art from the University of Guelph (2024). She is interested in the study of structures and systems of perception, and the ways they influence our understanding of our built environment, and how we occupy it.

For Anna Semenoff, sculpture offers an arena to consider the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our perception and experience thereof; or, how the world we make, makes us in turn. She is interested in the psychosocial impacts of technological structures, and how our built environment creates possible futures of which we are not yet aware.

First Things First, Semenoff’s new sculptural installation, is a spatial, material, and conceptual study of the arch; an architectural form that connects or delineates space, and whose geometry allows it to bear excessive weight and span large distances. The arch’s necessity and ubiquity were diminished somewhat with the widespread usage of reinforced concrete, a material that has become an omnipresent feature of our world, forming the basis of homes, skyscrapers, bridges, highways, and dams alike.

Image: Anna Semenoff, "First Things First", 2025. Photo by: Blaine Campbell

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