Annabel

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✨💥🌒 My last day in NYC last year we somehow spontaneously pulled this photoshoot of my wearable bioplastic pieces. From my personal climate grief -these were inspired by the whirlpool of death/birth, loss and the strange forms which life takes as it keeps re-emerging 💧 The pieces are made of bio plastic cooked from gelatin. I kinda hate ig so I haven’t posted these but it’s prolly time? Ayo! Thank you to all the angels who contributed to this 🤍 you are amazing! Model/ nymph @penmaix Photographer @xandermejia Wearable sculpture/ design/ concept: mua Styling assistant and general insp @pond.slime Lover/energetic being @snikka thank you babies 🩸 💧 🩸 , #bioplastic #bioplastics #wearablesculpture #DazedBeauty #experimentalfashion #dazedbeauty #sculptureart #hautecouture #sustainablefashion #fashiondesign #wearableart #climatecrisis #popartmakeup #avantgardemakeup #dazed #bizzare #slowfashion #conceptualfashion #plasticart #sculptor #nymph

0226_13 ctbs objekt 2 dancer @zoeparan camera @alexander._steffens full video on youtube

WET SAND is a performance resulting from an ongoing interdisciplinary research, examining human–land relations across the spectrum of the erotic.
 Through movement, scenography, and sound-work, the piece constructs a mythology which traces how sensorial connection and gestures of belonging and intimacy with land can glitch into fetishization, extraction or violence. 
Drawing upon their geopolitical backgrounds, Marlen Pflüger and Annabel Zoe Paran listen into various entanglements between humans and landscape, envisioning both land and human as entities in continuous processes of re-shaping. Concept and performance: @mrln.pflgr and @zoeparan Special thanks to: @diego_agullo and @oseee_josephine Photo Credit: @sophie.szabo Thanks to @lababerlin for the invitation <3

Tashlich / Walk 1: Casting off A collaborative work co-created with one inspiring Cory Tamler @corytamler and the group of Mar’a’yeh fellows, 2025. The work unfolded in multiple phases. In the preliminary phase, we held a collective vessel-making ritual. We relied on clay’s material capacity for “remembering”: As we formed and scored our coils (the vessel’s connective tissues) we imprinted the clay with intentions. 
Our prompt was, what do we wish to carry? What do we wish to give - to waters and to us, the water’s beings, what do we choose to hold, what do we ask to carry together, as perhaps we cannot carry alone? We worked in silence. When one felt compelled to break silence and voice out, our invitation was to do so by sharing or reading out loud from the assortment of texts we gathered - (Le Guin, John Berger, Mahmoud Darwish, Dorene Day, Beatrice Menase Kwe Jackson, Borges, Elizabeth Povineli, and others] - words and stories absorbed with notions and practices of carrying, bodies of water, and (being) vessels. We fired our vessel and she survived the kiln. In the second phase of the project, On Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year), we took the vessel to the Panke river, re-imagining the old Jewish “Tashlich” ceremony. Traditionally, Tashlich is performed every year by a running body of water, where a persons sins are symbolically cast away into the waters, “back into source.” Cory and myself wanted to re-access this rite, to treat water not merely as an anonymous container to hold our sins for us, but as a living, collaborating entity. We asked to give something to the water instead. Together we walked along the river, with our vessel, carrying water imbued with care and gravity from downstream, back up to one of the Panke’s dry sources. There, with the sun setting, we shared our messages in different languages as we poured the water back into earth, the dry riverbed. The work marked the first walk in Cory’s beautiful larger project Liebe Kleine Panke, in which, joined by various collaborators, she walked and carried water along the full length of the Panke river, in seven different segments. Film photography by gorgeous @ioanna_lng 🤍

More views and details of Desert Things, 2025 Sand Casting Relief, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien as part of “Entropy”\ Mar’a’yeh Fellowship @lababerlin . 🖤 Big thanks to the team and all the fellows, as well as to @abiefranklin who helped with the production and @debozaurus who taught me about sand casting to begin with. Big love and lots of gratitude for this one 🩶

Marlen Pflüger and Annabel Paran trace the erotic spectrum underlying human–land relations, moving through shifting expressions of care and violence. Their research carries the imprint — and the ghosts — of their geopolitical histories. WET SAND by @zoeparan & @mrln.pflgr Etude / Work in Progress December 6th 7-8 PM @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien Free Entrance

DESERT THINGS Sand relief 2025 By Annabel Paran Collective identities and origin stories are mutually constructed, often through ancient artifacts and sacred texts we choose to remember. Judaic identities, practices, and belongings have no single and coherent point of origin. In Desert Things, Paran lingers in the gap between the viewer and the ancient object — the glamorized, entropied, and re-institutionalized artifact — as a space where speculative fiction and ideology can be re-cast in the service of different agents, reshaping history. The desert here is imagined as a speculative site of origin for a people— a non-linear space of pre-formation and re-formation. A site of migration, where relationship to land is not yet defined by ownership, a landscape where the spiritually discarded coexist with encounters of the divine. A rugged womb where a people behaves as children. She asks, can we allow some stories to erode —like sand, ungraspable, shape-shifting- to acknowledge the fiction within our beginnings — and open them again for re-articulation? Photo credit 1-3 @franztaff

An invitation to join us as we walk the Panke river RSVP link in my bio for the public walks Photos 1 - 5 taken by @ioanna_lng during the first walk Liebe kleine Panke / Dear little Panke September–December 2025 In seven stages, I’m spending the autumn walking the twenty-seven kilometers of the Panke river from its source area in Bernau to its two mouths in Berlin. Some stages are walked with the public, others with smaller groups of companions. Many walks are designed with collaborators. Each walk considers the Panke as an interlocutor and experiments with performative, literary, and oral forms of encountering the river and recording the encounters. Schedule: Tue 23.9, 5pm Walk 1: Casting off (tashlich) Co-led with @zoeparan For current Mar'a'yeh Fellows only Tue 21.10, 6:30am Walk 2: Currents Co-led with scholar and ritual artist @ghostinglass Participation by invitation Sun 26.10, 11am Walk 3: Meander Co-led with writer and dramaturg @doanlumir Special extension of the Fluid Interdisciplinarities Festival @anthroposcenes.berlin Open to public with RSVP Friday 7.11, 12pm Walk 4: Flow Co-led with choreographers @thishasnothingtodowiththedance and @badelv1 Open to public with RSVP 8.11 - 3.12 Walk 5: Sediment Self-guided walk that can be undertaken at time and pace of your choosing Download guide: link in bio Thursday 4.12, 1pm Walk 6: Mouth Co-led with performer and scholar @alex_viteri_arturo Open to public with RSVP Sunday 14.12, 12pm Walk 7: Bed For current and former Mar’a’yeh and LABA Fellows Over the course of the Entropy exhibition at @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien (October 23–December 14), material traces from the walks accumulate in the @lababerlin gallery, forming a library of sediment that in turn will become source material to develop, in the future, a roving performance along and on the Panke. My research on the Panke began with the support of a Made in Berlin residency at @lakestudiosberlin including a work-in-progress showing in February 2023.

Open studios @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien @lababerlin next Thursday 25.9 come say hi 🧿

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Things that know me / that I don’t know Mixed media on paper