”anne&moffa”

Riikka Enne (Finland)

Sophia Moffa (UK/ Italy)

enne&moffa (b. 2018, Manchester) lives and works as a dyad. Their shows and happenings listed in chronological order: ‘WHERE ARE YOU IN THESE INTERESTING TIMES’ Scaffold Gallery, Manchester, UK; ‘the cashier only allowed us 24 jars’ Manchester, UK; ‘happening one’, Manchester, UK; ‘Leeds Art prize’ Left Bank, Leeds, UK; ‘Food to The Dogs, Tape Modern, Manchester, UK.

Riikka Enne born in 1990 in Tampere, Finland lives and works in Manchester. She studied her BA in Fine Art in Tampere School of Art (2014) and continued to her MFA in Manchester School of Art (2016). Enne works in sculpture and performance. Her work examines the gap between an individual’s experience and the tensions of society through found objects seen as revealing residues of human life, concentrating on materiality, patterns and restrictions. Recently she exhibited in Katerina Eleftheriadou/Riikka Enne/Maite Pinto, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK; Food to the Dogs, Tape Modern, Manchester, UK; Disponere, 5th Base Gallery, London, UK; Femfest, Tanner Street, London; Pittsburgh Performance Festival (PGHPAF), Pittsburgh, USA; Emergency Break Glass, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.

Sophia Moffa, born in 1994, Rome, Italy now lives and works in Manchester and Birmingham, UK. She studied her BA in sculpture, carving and construction in University of Wales Trinity Saint David (2016) and her MA in Fine Art in Manchester School of Art (2018). Moffa works in video, sculpture and performance. Her work is interested in the alternating mirroring of the self and the society, the communication between people and their surroundings and the negotiations that occur within ones on mind. She has exhibited within Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe. Her latest shows include Food to the Dogs, Tape Modern, Manchester, UK; There is no such thing as boredom, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester, UK; Brashnar, Skopje, Macedonia and Traces de Vie, Bologna, Italy.