Annie Edwards
Residency: RCA-Argo Collaborative
Annie's multidisciplinary practice distorts our familiar sense of reality by incorporating robotic, figurative sculptures with abstracted skeletal forms. Her installation and performances aim to understand the body from biological, psychoanalytical and social perspectives. Annie's research choreographs the tension between body and machine, embedding visceral knowledge into mechanical gesture. Her work references wider systems of control present in domestic, medical and industrial environments, drawing on her personal experience of trauma, neurodiversity, atopic illness, and her background in farming.
Her work embraces the grotesque and the abject as strategies to confront the beauty and discomfort of embodiment—using the language of the body to expose what is usually hidden, repressed, or deemed unacceptable. Annie’s work asks the viewer to reckon with their own embodiment, their own complicity, and their own capacity for tenderness.
