Information about the artist Anna Dial (born in 1992, Kamchatka, Russia) is an artist and self-publisher working with sculpture, animation, graphic, and printing. In her artist practice she focuses on body positivity, empathy, critique of patriarchy and social inequality, moving away from gender binarism and academic artistic standards. Anna transforms traditional clay toys and embroidery into a solidarity manifesto. The characters’ bodies in her universe let their bodies to be bodies - some sculptures have no mouth, which invites the viewers to assign them any emotional state. “Generally speaking, some of Anna’s sculptures look like clay lumps - faceless but still expressive. It is a kind of double body positivity with «wrong» and “right” body images. As if I allow myself to sculpt and draw without any strict reference to anatomy, geometry, and other conventional ideas about beauty.” (Anton Khitrov, art critic) Anna Dial is a co-founder of the micro-publishing house «Unknown Person» and «Kafedra» nomadic gallery, a teacher of contemporary art for adult. Anna Dial publishes collective and personal books and zines focused on feminist and queer optics, antiwar movement, and autofiction. In exile since 2022, in collaboration with other activists, she has successfully conceived and implemented seven opencalls that resulted in the production of either self-published zines or group exhibitions (Montenegro, Serbia and Germany). Anna sees the book as a tangible object able to overcome the distance between art activists in exile and those who still have to remain in Russia - such group art projects offer their participants to get connected, remaining anonymous and thus feeling safe. Anna is been researching the small press since 2018.