Anna-Ting Möller Chinese-Swedish, b. 1991
Möller's practice investigates a personal and symbolic understanding of ancestry and origin through the medium of kombucha. Such explorations of this material as mother, offspring, caregiver, contaminant, and the necessity of continuous care. Möller cultivates the kombucha-culture with tea and sugar—both materials rooted in colonial histories.
Anna-Ting Möller (b. 1991, Yueyang, China) is a Chinese/Swedish artist living and working in New York City and Stockholm. Möller has a BFA from Konstfack University, Stockholm (2018) and received IASPIS Swedish Artists Grant (2020), the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts Grant (2019) and the Sweden-American Foundation Fellowship (2022/2023). Möller has exhibited at Liljevalchs Konsthall, Kristianstad Konsthall, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, ArkDes, Carl Eldh Ateljemuseum, Stockholm, ICPNA La Molina, Lima, Peru, and has participated in the 45th Tendencies Biennale in Norway. Möller will be showing at Urban Glass, New York (2023), Titanik Gallery, Finland (2023) and Galleri Duerr, Stockholm (2024), and at Rösska Museum in Gothenburg (2024).
Artist Statement
Anna-Ting Möller was born in China and adopted by a Swedish family at the age of two. Möller's practice investigates a personal and symbolic understanding of ancestry and origin through the medium of kombucha. Such explorations of this material as mother, offspring, caregiver, contaminant, and the necessity of continuous care. Möller cultivates the kombucha-culture with tea and sugar—both materials rooted in colonial histories. Such pasts are shared and further complicated through the exploration of the colonial roots of adoption and its fraught relationship to Northern European economies, which contemplates on child adoption in the West through a postcolonial lens, as an economic structure.
"SUN - while humming is an experimental diary film and essay in first-person narration. Filmed in China, this story is emblematic of physical travels, but above all inner journeys. The narrative is composed of fragments of incomplete flashbacks. Disjointed but not unpleasant, a bit like the experience of travel itself. The work is my declaration of love to a country that does not exist, a place that I can only access through the lens of art. It manifests the presence of absence of a fixed self, by tracing a lost past, to better understand and exist in the present."
