For the Art-o-rama 2025 fair, the Spiaggia Libera gallery is partnering with the Scroll gallery (Nantes) to present artists Anna De Castro Barbosa and Jot Fau. Their work was also featured in the “Désenchantée” exhibition in Malmousque.

Anna de Castro Barbosa was born in 1995 in Montpellier. She lives and works in Paris. After studying art history
and then museology at the Sorbonne, Anna enrolled at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, graduating in
2024. She is the recipient of the Diptyque scholarship, the Bredin-Prat scholarship, and the Prix Dauphine for contemporary art.

Anna focuses her artistic practice on sculpture and installation in a quest to give form to relational tensions. She offers experiences involving objects and multisensory environments that incorporate haptic images, smells, and sensualities. Her work is about telling stories, exploring, and provoking relationships through unease and strangeness, involving seduction, attraction, and repulsion. She works in the precise space before contact to understand how it can operate, turning objects, montages, and systems into spaces of gestation.

Powerful in the imaginations and imagery of horror cinema, botany, medicine, entomology, and archaeology, Anna de Castro Barbosa conceives of a moving material in which relationships with the world are interwoven. Living materials inhabit her work, as much as the inhabitants and possible futures of these forms, in which strangeness always remains, exploring the potential for metamorphosis latent in all things, inanimate or living.

Jot Fau (1987) is a multidisciplinary artist. She creates objects, sculptures, installations, and photographs. She also designs clothing and costumes for artistic performances and dance shows, adopting a sculptural approach. She regularly combines and integrates one or more of these disciplines into her work.

She questions the concept of identity, of doing and becoming. Of searching and going on expeditions, of staying and renewing oneself, of leaving without knowing if one will reach one’s destination. Jot Fau is a harlequin, just like her work. The forms it takes are very eclectic, but everything originates from the mountain of materials she rummages through.