Sculptor and installation artist, working with paper and textile as material. Anja Marais works with Victorian colonial images that she combines with animistic elements of African folklore’s mysterious deities and gods.
Anja Marais embraces the contradictions of the precarious relationship between the dominant and the feminine of our delicate world. Through an ancestral portal she examines the fragility of life by creating biosphere content that touches on themes of cyclical elements of fauna and flora, memories, genetics and life-death.
After graduating from the University of South Africa, Marais immigrated to the United States where her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally, and held residencies like Mino Art in Japan. She has also been a recipient of the Florida Individual Artist Grant and has been in publications like the Florida International Magazine, Art in America and Artnews. Marais works and resides in South Florida.
