Artist
Anya Naumovic
Artist
Artist Bio
Anya Naumovic is an interdisciplinary artist who works with print-based media, ceramics and text. Her work has evolved to take an introspective look at sexual trauma and the female body.
Naumovic’s work has become a bank of evidence of her rape and abuse, where previously there was none. Allowing for an exploration into intangible feelings and translating them into a domestic object that is comprehensible, she takes the private experience of abuse into the public domain; wishing to make her work accessible to all women affected by sexual abuse and violence.
Artwork Description
Like I Think Of You (2022) was created using lino printed typeface. The aggression of pressing text upon paper relates to the transmission and release of trauma from the psyche into physical form. The text is hard to discern, and the process leaves imperfections, becoming a metaphor for the scarred mind.
The text explores the guilt and fear that arises when thinking about my abuser, questioning whether he does the same. Acknowledging that I may still exist in his mind as he does in mine fuels a vulnerability that has not quite healed.
