AR CONTEMPORARY
NORTH CAROLINA, 1969
Ana Nance is a multidisciplinary artist whose training in Fine Arts and Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design has been enriched by more than a decade of professional experience in New York, where she developed an outstanding career in the field of editorial and documentary photography as editor and producer for Sygma Photo Agency, freelance photographer and exhibitor for numerous magazines and newspapers, in addition to teaching at the International Center of Photography (ICP). Since moving to Madrid, she has been a contributor to the magazines El País Semanal and Marie Claire.
Her practice has evolved towards an expanded exploration of visual languages, integrating media such as drawing, installation, research and, especially significantly, ceramics.
In this medium, Nance has found a way of expression deeply linked to matter and symbolism, in which her aesthetic sensibility, her historical awareness and her concern for the ways of inhabiting and remembering come together. Her ceramic pieces, far from being limited to the functional, operate as artifacts of memory and reflection, activating narratives that question identity, belonging and the relationship between human beings and the earth. Through an organic approach to the material, her work reveals a poetic dimension of clay as a primordial substance and a living metaphor of transformation.
Her ceramics are not presented as a mere technical displacement from photography, but as a coherent expansion of her visual thinking: a practice that links ancestral gesture with contemporary concerns, and that aspires to establish a timeless language capable of translating the intimate and the universal. In his work, ceramics becomes a vehicle for connecting past and present, nature and culture, individual experience and collective memory.