anna floto

THESINA 2025

Fluidity as a State of Being: Generative Disruption of the Everyday

Over the last few years, my practice as an artist has focused on public life, relationships, and social behaviour, especially the unspoken rules of interaction in cities and in my everyday surroundings. My work often seeks to observe and intervene with these patterns to build new ways of engaging with others and the world. I approach this practice with fluidity and openness, allowing ideas and encounters to unfold organically rather than imposing fixed forms. Concepts from Donna Haraway, such as diffraction, companion species, and making oddkin, remind me that we are always entangled with others- human and non-human and that paying attention to these entanglements can open new paths for connection and collective living.

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12HOURSOUP

12Hour Soup is a collaborative investigational project, where people come together to collectively prepare and share soup, encouraging social connections and a sense of community. By contributing ingredients and participating in the meal, the project turns ordinary interactions into an artistic experience centered on collaboration and human connection.

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28.04.2024
08:00-20:00

200cent, barcelona

LA OCA

La Oca is a series of 63 sculptural paintings created in collaboration with the collective La Bobería. This project, developed for an exhibition at casaespacio in January 2025, reimagines one of the oldest board games, transforming it into an interactive experience where art becomes something to be played rather than simply observed.

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18.01.2025
casaespacio, barcelona

Dinner with Familiar Strangers

Familiar Strangers are individuals that we regularly observe but do not interact with.
By definition a Familiar Stranger (1) must be observed, (2) repeatedly, and (3) without any interaction. The claim is that the relationship we have with these Familiar Strangers is indeed a real relationship in which both parties agree to mutually ignore each other

I invited 15 of my ‘Familiar Strangers’ to have dinner with me.

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See the piece presented here

23.02.2025
19:00-22:00

Presentation of ‘Dinner with Familiar Strangers’

While presenting my piece ‘Dinner with Familiar Strangers’ I wanted to represent my investigation of this social phenomenon. I made the decision not to include any personal information about the familiar strangers (photos, names etc.) because each familiar stranger is a personal and unique relationship. Nobody else has the same pattern of familiar strangers as me because nobody walks the same daily path as me in the city.

Instead I wanted to plant the idea in people’s minds that they are having a dinner with their own familiar strangers.

ABSORB & DIGEST

The project involved sitting on a bench for an hour, observing the interactions and fleeting moments in the surrounding space. These observations were then translated into drawings and compiled into a handmade book. The book was left on the same bench, inviting someone to take it and engage with the captured moments.

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VIDEOS

Various videos including interviews with some artists from 200CENT gallery and just videos for fun:)

The Frame and the Flow

“The everyday” generally refers to the ordinary, routine, or habitual aspects of daily life—the things, actions, and experiences that people encounter regularly and often take for granted.
It’s about the mundane or commonplace moments that form the backdrop of our existence, like going to work, the scenarios that occur on the streets, or casual social interactions. read more

SLEEP WITH THIS CANVAS

Sleep with this Canvas is a project exploring human connection through trust, care, and love. A canvas was passed between friends and family over two weeks, with each participant sleeping with it and documenting the experience. The final canvas, carrying marks of affection and trust, was returned to the artist, symbolising the shared connections. read more

Part of experimento002 in casaespacio, Barcelona

25.07.24

“Primitive connection, everything intertwines, the lines move and create maps that take us away from the treasure. Cyclical states of a world bordering on collapse”

Finding Order Through Placement

a revised sudoku book

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El Camino

oil on canvas
2024

During the process of moving all my artworks out of the studio where I had worked for two years, I began transporting them piece by piece, first to my workplace, then home. It was a walk I had done a thousand times over those years, but there was a deep nostalgia in carrying the last piece out. read more

H16

The H16 invites everyday scenarios such as commuting into possible acts of participation through chance and the unexpected. The paintings together form a bus stop, yet their dispersal along the H16 bus route and within the gallery disrupts routine, opening possibilities for new encounters, relational engagement, networks, and the collective completion of the artwork.

Plats Bruts

Dilluns s’ha acabat
Ara veig el meu gat,
Tot el dia pluja,
Pluja, pluja
Pluja,

M’agradaria ser una bruixa
Llavors podria fer una sopa,
I donar-la a tota europa.