Annalù
Venice Airport

The project Art Meets Travel, born from the collaboration between Galleria Ravagnan and Gruppo SAVE as part of the cultural initiatives promoted by Venice Airport, continues with the aim of bringing contemporary art into the spaces of the passenger terminal. Following the exhibition dedicated to Andrea Vizzini, the project opens a new chapter, this time showcasing the work of Annalù, a Venetian artist of internationally recognized importance.

There is a subtle threshold where things stop being what they are and begin to transform. That is where Annalù’s art is born: an art that does not remain fixed, but happens; that does not weigh down, but floats; that does not shout, but vibrates like the very breath of Venice, the liquid city that generated it.

In this exhibition at Venice Marco Polo Airport, Annalù’s sculptures welcome travelers like suspended visions at once light and powerful. Between departures and arrivals, they create an unexpected space of silence and wonder, where matter becomes transparency and time seems to slow down. Annalù builds a breathing pause, woven of intangibility, color, metamorphosis - a pause capable of touching those who pass through these places in motion, suspending time for a moment and opening the door to emotion.

“With Annalù, our journey of public art within Marco Polo Airport continues - a project that aims to offer travelers not only a different gaze, but also a different time: a moment of suspension, where one can simply be touched by something.” - says Chiara Ravagnan of Galleria Ravagnan. “Her work is deeply linked to Venice: not only through the use of Murano glass, but through a distinctly Venetian sensibility that turns matter into light, the instant into eternity. Her works do not narrate, they evoke. And in a place like this, they become silent companions to the journey.”

At the heart of the exhibition is the Dreamcatchers series, from which the show Dreamcatchers. Suspended Metamorphoses takes its name.
The dreamcatcher, an ancient Indigenous amulet, is believed to have the power to capture positive dreams while filtering out the negative ones, freeing the mind and heart to fly toward new possibilities. The spirals and circular forms of Annalù’s works recall this very function: a spiral where dreams and reality intertwine, where time and space are suspended, and where each visitor can rediscover a moment of quiet reflection - an invitation to dream with open eyes.
These are large wall sculptures made of Murano glass, fiberglass, paper, and inks. Circular, airy forms that echo ancient mandalas, cosmic vortices, suspended blossoms. At their center, blown glass discs tell of the preciousness of origins. Around them, butterfly wings and ginkgo leaves disassemble and recombine in perpetual motion, as if the work itself were breathing together with the Universe.
Butterflies, symbols of transformation and the soul, become impossible mosaics, drawn in colors that do not exist in nature but vibrate with dreamlike beauty. Ginkgo biloba, a millennial and sacred tree, brings a dialogue with resilience, duality, and the silent force of time.
The materials - glass, resin, paper - speak of a living nature interwoven with artifice and the sense of the instant. Venice, amphibious mother, is both the origin and the destination of this poetics of matter. A city that appears and disappears in the mist, like Annalù’s works, which do not simply remain to be seen: they hover, dissolve, and take flight.
And it is precisely the airport - paradigmatic place of passage - that embraces these rarefied presences. Her works are invitations to dream, to embark on a journey that requires no destination.

“Exhibiting, for me, is an act of revelation. It is like lifting a veil and allowing something, until now invisible, to take form in the light,” says Annalù. “In a space of transit such as this, the work does not remain still: it enters into dialogue with movement, with the thoughts of those who leave and those who return. I seek to inhabit that suspended fragment in which everything is possible, like the moment before flight, when one dreams with open eyes and lets change pass through, like the beat of wings before the lift-off, like the precise instant in which one dreams and flies.”

Annalù is an artist who has created a unique and profoundly personal language, able to speak both on a universal and intimate level, touching deep strings of the collective imagination. In every butterfly that breaks apart, in every piece of glass that breathes light, one finds an ancestral feeling: that of continuous transformation, of natural memory, of beauty that changes form and in doing so, changes us. Her sculptures do not ask to be interpreted, but to be lived - each in one’s own way, each with one’s own story.

Born in San Donà di Piave (Venice) in 1976, Annalù graduated from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts in 1999. She is a multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, installations, and experimental materials such as resin, Murano glass, paper, and inks.

She regularly exhibits in Italy and abroad: the United States, China, Singapore, Russia, South Africa, Europe, and the United Arab Emirates. She has taken part twice in the Venice Biennale (2001 and 2011). In 2009 she represented Italy at the Moya Museum in Vienna; in 2020 one of her sculptures entered the collection of the VAF Foundation (Germany); in 2024 and 2025 her works were auctioned at the National Gallery Singapore.

In her practice, nature and technology coexist: resin, the central material of her works, becomes a symbol of transformation, suspension, and metamorphosis. Her sculptures, even monumental ones, seem to liquefy while simultaneously commanding space.
Her poetics move between artifice and reality, in a dynamic balance reminiscent of alchemy: she is interested in the moment when things change state, when everything is in becoming.

Winner of numerous awards (Arte Laguna, Stonefly, Zaha Hadid), she has exhibited in prestigious venues such as GAM Bologna, Fondazione Benetton, Fondazione Burri, the Natural History Museum of Venice, SDAI Museum San Diego, the Church of San Francesco in Como, and the VAF Foundation in Germany.

She lives and works in her studio in Jesolo (Venice).