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 recognised significance.

There is a subtle threshold where things cease to be what they are and begin to transform. It is there that Annalù’s art is born: an art that does not remain still, 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 gave birth to it.

In this exhibition at Venice Marco Polo Airport, Annalù’s sculptures welcome travellers as 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 constructs a breathing pause, woven of intangibility, colour and metamorphosis – a pause capable of touching those who move through these transient spaces, 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 travellers not only a different gaze, but a different sense of time: a moment of suspension, where one can simply allow oneself to 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 transforms 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 capture positive dreams while filtering out negative ones, freeing the mind and heart to soar toward new possibilities. The spirals and circular forms of Annalù’s works echo this very function: a space where dreams and reality intertwine, where time and space dissolve, and where each visitor may 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 evoke ancient mandalas, cosmic vortices and suspended blossoms. At their centre, blown glass discs speak of the preciousness of origin. Around them, butterfly wings and ginkgo leaves disassemble and reassemble in perpetual motion, as if the artwork itself were breathing in harmony with the universe.

Butterflies, symbols of transformation and the soul, become impossible mosaics, rendered in colours that do not exist in nature yet vibrate with dreamlike beauty. Ginkgo biloba, a millenary and sacred tree, introduces 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 fleeting sense of the present moment. 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 observed – they hover, seem to dissolve, and take flight.

And it is precisely the airport – a paradigmatic place of passage – that embraces these rarefied presences. Her works invite us to dream, to embark on a journey that needs 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 like this, the artwork does not remain static: it enters into dialogue with movement, with the thoughts of those who depart and those who return. I seek to inhabit that suspended fragment where everything is possible – like the moment before flight, when one dreams with open eyes and allows change to pass through, like the beat of wings before take-off, like the precise instant in which one dreams and flies.”

Annalù has created a unique and deeply personal visual language, capable of speaking on both a universal and intimate level, touching profound chords of the collective imagination. In every butterfly that fragments, in every sheet of glass that breathes light, an ancestral feeling emerges: 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 experienced – each in their own way, each through their own story.

Born in San Donà di Piave (Venice) in 1976, Annalù graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice 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 internationally, including the United States, China, Singapore, Russia, South Africa, Europe and the United Arab Emirates. She has participated 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, a central material in her works, becomes a symbol of transformation, suspension and metamorphosis. Her sculptures – even monumental ones – seem to liquefy while simultaneously asserting their presence in 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).