Anna Siow Usadi

MAMA FILMS • A short documentary sharing an insight into Anna Usadi’s (@annausadi ) practice following her recent MAMA Salon. Working across sculpture, drawing, text, sound and moving image, Usadi’s practice rethinks familiar ideas of progress and time, imagining other ways of living and relating to the world. Her work moves between the human and non-human, the natural and artificial, and the real and imagined. Usadi’s ceramics and drawings speculate on a future in which marine life has disappeared. Reconstructed “seashells” emerge from a world that has forgotten how they were once formed - spectral objects that reflect on loss and how we remember what can no longer exist. This film documents Usadi in the studio in the lead-up to the exhibition, offering a glimpse into her process, methods and material techniques. Director / Camera: Tatiana Stark (@tatiana__stark ) Producers: Annie Fulcher (@anniejfulcher ), Tatiana Stark Composer: Blanca Romeo de la Higuera (@odinamusic ) Special thanks: Finn Boxer (@finnboxer )

SAVE THE DATE! Opening Friday 13th March 6-10pm. We’re very excited to invite you to our forthcoming exhibition, Temporal Fictions. . Time is not singular or linear; it bends, fractures, and loops. Temporal Fictions brings together four artists who challenge dominant narratives of history and futurity, proposing alternative ways of thinking about time. Drawing on ecological and geological deep time, speculative urban archaeology, and digital mythologies, the exhibition weaves together past and future, fiction and reality, inviting viewers into temporalities outside of human dominance. Each artist envisions speculative worlds shaped by loss, displacement, technology, and material culture. Together, their works suggest futures in which the debris of the present is repurposed, objects carry fragmented memories, and history is continuously rewritten through our digital, material, and ecological footprints Anchored by a central architectural column, Temporal Fictions explores the malleability of time through speculative pasts and imagined futures, moving between ancient myth, retro-futurism, digital archaeology, and science-fiction world-building. In a moment when historical narratives are contested and the future feels precarious, the exhibition traces alternative timelines, lost utopias, and technological hauntings. Artists: Ella Fleck, Alia Hamaoui, Emma Papworth, Anna Usadi . The exhibition will continue until 18th April 2026, open Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm. @fleels @aliahamaoui @emma_papworth @annasiowusadi #ellafleck #aliahamaoui #emmapapworth #annausadi #piccalilligallery

MOVING TOWARDS STAGNATION 2025 60 x 18 x 18cm Earthenware, oil, plastic Work shown at ‘The Rot’, another @ruderal_projects group show in a public woodland in South London. Thank you to @giulia_fassone and @delf_leppard for bringing the event to life, and for inviting me to be a part of it. Ruderal has become such a warm community, a space to play, gather, and meditate on the world beyond us. Very happy it exists and excited to see what they do next!

Been reflecting on this show for a while. Many late but meditative nights working with clay. Feels like it just wrapped up but a new year has already started. So grateful to Sarah from @art___mama for the opportunity and to my friends and family who helped me with endless much needed moral and physical support along the way. Thank you 🫶 Pics from the opening night courtesy of my dad.

Some installation shots from the MAMA Salon I did at the end of last year. @art___mama 📸 @tomcarterldn

MAMA SALON: ANNA USADI (@annausadi ) Drawing from the lineage of environmental art, Usadi’s practice mourns ecological loss while reimagining the relationship between technological progress and the living world. She questions whether our contemporary languages—technological, scientific, or artistic—can still speak meaningfully about the living world at a moment when language itself seems to fail to capture the ruptures of our time. Her work acts as both elegy and speculation, inviting reflection on continuity, transformation, and the shifting landscape through which we record and relate to the natural world. 📸 @tomcarterldn

MAMA SALON: ANNA USADI (@annausadi ) ANOMALY, (2023) charcoal on paper, 54 x 42 cm 📸 @tomcarterldn

MAMA SALON: ANNA USADI (@annausadi ) Now closed. Thank you to all who came! 📸 @tomcarterldn

MAMA SALON: ANNA USADI (@annausadi ) Open today & tomorrow 12-6pm 309 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 📸 @tomcarterldn

MAMA SALON presents ANNA USADI (@annausadi ) OPENING FRIDAY 14.11.2025, 6-8PM (all welcome) 15.11.2025-16.11.2025, 12-6PM 309 BETHNAL GREEN ROAD, E2 • “67 104 105 99 111 114 101 117 115 32” (2025) Unglazed earthenware 28x20x19cm

MAMA SALON presents ANNA USADI (@annausadi ) OPENING 14.11.2025, 6-8PM (all welcome) 15.11.2025-16.11.2025, 12-6PM 309 BETHNAL GREEN ROAD, E2 Through sculpture, drawing, text, sound and moving image, Anna Usadi’s practice challenges familiar ideas of progress and time, envisioning alternative ways of living and relating to the world. Through her work, she blurs the lines between human and non-human, natural and artificial, reality and imagination. Through ceramics and drawings in this exhibition, Usadi imagines a future where marine life has vanished - reconstructed “sea shells” from a world that has forgotten how to build them. These ghostly forms mourn what’s been lost and question how we remember what can no longer exist. • MAMA Salon is a gathering of creative minds, fostering the exchange of ideas and artistic innovation. Committed to elevating the work of women-presenting artists and addressing the critical gender dynamics within the art world, MAMA continues to function as a curatorial platform from the living space reimagined as MAMA Salon. While the domestic space has traditionally been seen as a place that confines women, MAMA seeks to reclaim the living room as a space for artistic expression and empowerment.

DISPARATE CHEMICALS 2025 Scrap computer parts, clay, grass, waste construction sand, paper speakers, polypropylene bag, soil, weeds, sound