Anna Tjé

Born in 1989, Anna Tjé lives and works in Paris. Through a transdisciplinary practice at the intersection of poetic narrative, the body in motion, spiritual song, image (photographs / videos), the internet and sculpture, Anna Tjé aims to deconstruct the mechanisms of survival and healing in so-called subcultures. Navigating through research and a protean contemporary creation, she engages in performance – including in endurance art, song and dance – and in video installations to explore the intimacy, trauma, and resilience of the black female body. By drawing on her personal archives and on the careers of feminist and/or queer artists and activists of the African diaspora, she questions the attributes of memory, utopia, science fiction and spirituality as vehicles of emancipation and communication.

Anna Tjé studied textile creation and fashion design at Mod'art International in Paris before exploring the media. After graduating with a Masters in Communication and Publishing, she further developed her research and practice in the doctoral programme in arts and media in the department of performance and theatre at the New Sorbonne University in Paris. Co-founder and artistic director of Atayé, a literary and artistic journal and platform, Anna Tjé also organizes artistic gatherings and conducts early learning and creative writing workshops.