Anastasia Klose

Anastasia Klose’s work explores a particular "aesthetic of the pathetic", but not in the derogatory sense that it
may first imply.  Reviewing her work in NEW07 Jared Davis wrote that: "Klose’s self-deprecating artistry
reveals a superb talent for the manipulation of her filmic medium.  Her dry, apathetic sense of humour is both
consciously ironic, and holistically human…Klose’s work is not merely provocactive irony, but an exquisitely
intrinsic view of people – our strengths and our failures."  Klose’s video work embodies the "low tech
aesthetic that is heralding a wider shift in contemporary Australian art-making practices…