Glow-in-the-dark Stars and Blu Tack vi By Anna-Rose Stefatou

‘Glow-in-the-dark Stars and Blu Tack’ is a series of works that reference the coffee reading ritual and how we make sense of the markings in the dregs through diagrammatic constellations. Celluloid stars on the ceiling of a kid’s bedroom or embossed Orthodox icons hung in typical Balkan homes: constellations that hold stories stripped of their specificity, veering towards a way of reading that is open and still to come.

It is said that at the back of the retina there is a pigment whose proteins bleach in light and recover in the dark, etching images like diagrams. Much like these visual hauntings, materials in the works catch light—they absorb and refract it, spitting out a static sedimented image of movement.

Product Information

Anna-Rose Stefatou
Glow-in-the-dark Stars and Blu Tack vi
aluminium frame, metal Orthodox icon engraving, inkjet print on photoluminescence paper
26 x 19 x 3 cm
2025

About the Artist

Anna-Rose Stefatou (born 1996, Athens) is a Greek-British artist based in Athens and London, working between moving image, photography, installation, and writing. Her interdisciplinary works attend to stories attached to place. Language is used both as an outset and a distillation mechanism, with materials and imagery in her visual works responding directly to the writing. Gathering and repositioning knowledge guides her process, which often involves archival research, interviews, collecting objects, and site visits. She is currently interested in the intersections of folk practice, ritual, and lore with contemporary technologies and practices. She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2019) and was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020. She undertook an artist residency at Hospitalfield House, Scotland in 2023. Earlier this year, she had a window gallery presentation at San Mei Gallery, London and a solo show at Pharmakeion in Athens. She also published her first poetry publication ‘Dregs, Beacons’.

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