Anna Choutova is an artist living and working in London, UK. Choutova’s practice is best described as a “browse through a forgotten section of a Duty Free store.” She is fascinated by the things we consume in an effort to alter our identity. Coming from an Eastern European background and being thrown into a Westernized upbringing in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, her practice functions as a form of rose-tinted voyeurism into an idealized Western culture. The culture she was born into both fetishizes and demonizes American consumer culture. Choutova’s practice reflects this duality and comments on the push-and-pull of East and West that exists both within her and within most post-Soviet Eastern Europeans. She has put herself between Malevich and McCarthy and is on a mission to marry destitute bleakness with inconceivable excess in her own practice.