Anna Frants
From the series Simple Pleasures
Installation, 2024
Kineographs, robotics, mixed media
Engineers: Philipp Avetisov, Eugene Pavlov, Eugene Ovsyannikov, Dmitry Shirokov
Supported by CYLAND MediaArtLab
To Make a Long Story Short brings photographic memory into motion through automated kineographs. The work draws on Frants’s experience of developing, copying and retouching photographs after moving to the United States, and on the lasting impressions left by the anonymous portraits that passed through her hands.
Participation in Exhibitions
CYFEST 16 — Archive of Feelings. A Journey, HayArt Centre, Yerevan, Armenia (16 November–1 December 2024)
CYFEST 17 — Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape, MOMus–Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece (27 November 2025–25 January 2026)
CYFEST 17 — Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape, CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy (8 May–31 August 2026)
Related Work and Publications
Simple Pleasures
Artist statement and work details — CYFEST
Artribune — Interview with Anna Frants
TyposThes — CYFEST 17 at MOMus
Cover photograph: Ann Prilutckaia, CYFEST 16, HayArt Centre, Yerevan, 2024. Reproduced from the Artribune interview.