Rosalie Aleksandra Anter

Born in Istanbul in 1996, raised in the United States, Rosalie Aleksandra seeks to understand concepts of roots, identity, persona, communication and connection between one another. Spending her childhood in a warm and loving community, and then moving into a more individualized, independent manner of connection, she learned to expand within the freedom while also yearning for the intimacy of her past life.

Studying interdisciplinary fine arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, Rosalie Aleksandra dabbled in a wide array of media from photography to sculpture to drawing. Questioning what it is to draw or what it is to make, she became interested in the process itself, and in creating a softer line between the art and the viewer.

Having participated in exhibitions around the world including the US, Israel, Turkey, and an art fair in Saatchi Gallery in London, ‘Living Room / Salon’ at Arthan Gallery, Istanbul marks her first solo show.

“The work is about the human fight to be, to feel, and to release. Essentially it’s a portrait of a human’s, a young woman’s, state of aloneness and tenderness in response to the stimulation and events of the outer world. Almost like the penetration of a tree by outer forces and how the tree responds to the strokes or happenings around it, I respond to the world through my pieces. “