Anja Stenina is a conceptual artist and a founding member of the artist-led gallery, GS Artists Swansea. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Fine Art with a focus on critical social epistemology in the Welsh Institute of Science and Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. In her current PhD research, Stenina is developing Frictive philosophies - a practice-based set of theoretical frameworks and concepts that guide post-structuralist thought into more mechanical, dynamic spaces for the analysis and practice of art. In her work, Anja Stenina explores the quotidian fleeting moments at the point of breakdown of ideological positions. She explores social situations in which common sense is not what it seems and when everyday mundane interactions take on a sinister aspect. The artist explores expressions of fear, doubt and self-approving superiority in relation to the speaking position in society.