making things is a collaboration with objects

you make something and it becomes itself

you start a conversation with that new self

you give it a name and change its name

then the name has a self and with the new name it becomes a new self and the conversation continues

and becomes confused

and becomes clearer with all its shifting beauty, ugliness, difficulty

with all the associations it carries, it becomes something bigger

and you look at it

DeAnna Maganias was born in Washington DC. She has had solo shows in Rome, New York and group exhibitions at the National Theatre of Greece, the Museum of Cycladic Art in Greece, the Prague Biennale, the Macro Museum in Rome and the 2004 Outlook exhibition in Athens, among others. Her work is in the collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece, MACRO Museum in Rome and Marta Museum in Herford, Germany and in the private collections of NEON and DESTE among others. In 2010 she was awarded the first prize for the monument for the victims of the Holocaust in Athens.