Ánima Correa

Ánima Correa lives and works in Los Angeles. She received a BA in Urban Studies from Eugene Lang TheNewSchoolforLiberalArts,NewYork,NY 2014 and a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY 2013. Correa also attended The Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles, CA 2021 , and Dark Study 2021. Her work has been exhibited at Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, CA; HOUSING, New York, NY; Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY; Master Piss Galeria, Lima, Peru; and Court Space, Los Angeles, CA. Ánima Correa’s paintings and installations illuminate the intricate infrastructures interlocking image circulation, geopolitical relationships, and psychic space. Her work explores notions of extractive myopia, or the imaginary distance from or blindness towards physical extraction of earth minerals and substances which enable global connectivity and the endurance of colonial legacies. Through a wide-reaching research based practice encompassing optics, divination, pop culture, biophysics, geology and Latin American history, Correa threads together images which evoke the contemporary phantasmagorical experience of seeing, perceiving, and diagnosing.