Anna Meyer: BAD PAINTERS ARE THE BETTER ARTISTS

In her pictures Anna Meyer confronts and contrasts competing discourses about truth, spotlighting social and personal conflicts. Decaying industrial buildings, leisure parks, pictures of friends and role models, glittering metropolises, shopping centres, homeless people, modern and traditional nomads, and time and again the artist herself – juxtaposed either in individual pictures or in series of works. Realistic looking objects are placed next to abstract set pieces, familiar elements become unfamiliar by the use of scale or colour, and fragments of pictures appear next to slogans, sections of text or single words.