Danai Anesiadou

Enigmatic and multi-layered, Danai Anesiadou’s work blurs the boundaries between personal mythology, esoteric knowledge, and political speculation. Through sculpture, performance, collage, and time-based media, she constructs visual and spatial narratives informed by occult practices, cinema, science fiction, and metaphysics. Her art often functions as an energetic intervention, using symbolic objects, gestures, and language to activate hidden histories and imagine speculative futures. Anesiadou’s sculptures frequently incorporate her own possessions—fossilized in resin or transformed into energetic devices—suggesting a collapse of private memory and collective unconscious. Her performances echo ritual and confession, weaving together fiction, autobiography, and prophecy in acts that resist linear meaning. Through layered references and altered materials, she engages in a process of “self-fictionalization,” challenging notions of authenticity, authorship, and the visible. Her work proposes reality as an unstable construct shaped by paranoia, desire, and invisible forces. Unfolding like conspiratorial puzzles or mythic sagas, Anesiadou’s practice navigates the thresholds between belief and doubt, visibility and secrecy, presence and absence—inviting viewers into a space where the spiritual, the political, and the personal collapse into a single charged field. ...

Dépendance is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2003 by Michael Callies and Stephan Jaax in Brussels. Situated in the heart of the city, the gallery has established itself as a pivotal space for critical and experimental artistic practices. Since its inception, dépendance has been dedicated to presenting works that challenge conventions and engage with social and political themes. The gallery's program includes both emerging and established artists, fostering a dynamic dialogue within the contemporary art scene. ...