At this year’s Photo London Galerie—Peter—Sillem is delighted to present two solo shows. The fair will be the official launch of Alia Ali’s new series Liberty. Numerous works from Anastasia Samoylova’s most recent project Floridas will be on view for the first time.

Anastasia Samoylova (b. 1984) is an American artist who moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. By utilizing tools and strategies related to digital media and commercial photography, her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque.

Her new book Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova & Walker Evans was published by Steidl in 2022. In 2020-2021 her ongoing project FloodZone was presented in solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art; HistoryMiami Museum; Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; and The Print Center Philadelphia. In 2022 the project will be exhibited at the Eastman Museum. Samoylova is shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022. In 2021 she was awarded the first KBr Photo Award by KBr Fundación MAPFRE.

Alia Ali // عاليه علي (b. 1985) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-US multi-media artist. Having traveled to sixty-seven countries, lived in and between seven, and grown up among five languages, her most comfortable mode of communication is through photography, video, and installation. Working between language, photography, video, textile, and installation, Ali’s work addresses the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism, and racism through projects that take pattern and textile as their primary motif.

Alia Ali is a graduate of Wellesley College and the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, Le Monde, Art Review, Vogue, and Hyperallergic. It is in collections at the British Museum, Princeton University, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Tucson Museum of Art and numerous international corporate and private collections. Alia Ali lives and works in New Orleans and Marrakech. She was selected for the Artsy Vanguard 2021.