ANNA ZANICHELLI

Bauxity is a factory window overlooking a suspended space that brings together, in an almost aleatory composition, plastics and aluminium that I collected during my walks.

Once their wrapping function is extinguished, these artificial materials become like vacant snake’s skins; they journey around the earth, bound by its gravity.

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The fragments I choose are floating in a time of oblivion. By prolonging this moment of fall, of distancing, I implement a process of transformation. This dilated process of falling metamorphoses itself into a path that leads these objects towards a new status, inviting them to speak of their former existence while embracing their potential for rebirth. 

From containing nourishment, they become the nourishing objects of my artistic practice.

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Bauxity is a constellation-like testimony of human passage, showing the habits and customs of our era.

A handful of shiny confetti in the air giving back preciousness to the materials that are thrown away in our everyday cosmic dance of waste. 

The title recalls the name of the rock from which aluminum is extracted, we find this mineral here, but in another form.