Premio Combat Prize

This piece enters into dialogue with cultural discourses surrounding food and vanity, playfully adopting and subverting contemporary mythology surrounding the highly commercialized and romanticized Mediterranean Diet.
Anna Rose (b. 1982, Massachusetts, USA) lives and works in Florence, Italy. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work spans across fiber arts, costume, photography and video, with a sensibility towards the relationship between body and environment, entering into conversation with historical, psychological, and cultural mythologies of place.