Anna Zanichelli (°1992) is an Italian artist based in Brussels. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Brussels with a master of sculpture in 2019. 

While participating in multiple group exhibitions, she has traveled through different residency programs using their spatial component to nurture her material-based practice. 

Her installation called ‘Fillet Pur’ was created in situ by handstitching throw-away fruit and vegetable nets together to create a giant 13 on 6 meters fishnet-like structure hangs from the ceiling of the space ‘Coursives’. 

Suspended on this structure are helium cartridges found on the streets of Brussels, pulled down by gravity and floating in the air.

Anna’s conceptualization of the Apocalypse is that of a giant explosion. A moment of stillness and ecstasy in which the air becomes unbreathable by oxygen deficiency. 

In this figment of time, the forces of nature decide the journey of the body and its ability to breathe. 

Like the countless cartridges lying on the streets of Brussels, their journey is subject to nature’s will. 

Humanity is choking in nets cast out by itself.

Zanichelli’s shows a great ability to create a metaphorical charge within her Frankenstinian practice.

She creates a human trace by hand stitching obsolete materials into a new life. 

Her work is not a simple critique of consumerism. She has no saviors complex about humanity or the urge to make big statements. 

Instead, she creates wholeness by bringing together the diversity of the objects trouvés in her orphanage of found materials.

These artificial materials fell out of humanity’s grace, from our pockets into nature. They journey around the earth, bound by its gravity.