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Artsted Catalogue 2022

The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.

The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.

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ANNAHITA BROOKS

Annahita Brooks is a half-polish half-Persian contemporary

artist investigating her heritage through

lens-based media, installation art, and site-specific

research. An MFA graduate in Fine Art at the University

of Oxford, Annahita is exploring her Persian heritage

through photography and mixed media to create an

image of and compare anatomical similarities to her

biological father, to subsequently locate him. Through

her Polish heritage, she is investigating her family’s involvement

in political underground movements and

their eventual withdrawal from society.

The use of lens-based media, especially analog photography,

is vital for the investigatory and documentary

aspects of site-specific research as it supports the

ephemeral nature of the themes and stories she investigates.

These investigatory procedures then inform

the aesthetic and spatial decisions in Annahita’s installations.

Currently, this aesthetic is inspired by polish

modernism and catholic kitsch objects and thematically

deals with withdrawal and hermit lifestyles.

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