Curated by Galleria Ravagnan
In collaboration with the SAVE S.P.A. Group 

The project Art Meets Travel continues — born from the collaboration between Galleria Ravagnan and SAVE S.p.A. Group, within the cultural initiatives promoted by Venice Airport — with the aim of bringing contemporary art into the heart of the passenger terminal.
In this exhibition at Marco Polo Airport, Annalù’s sculptures welcome travelers as suspended visions: light and powerful at the same time.
Amid departures and arrivals, her works create an unexpected space of silence and wonder — where matter turns to transparency and time seems to slow down.

Made of Murano glass, fiberglass, paper, and inks, the sculptures offer a breathing pause — made of color, metamorphosis, and lightness — a pause capable of touching those who move through these spaces and opening them to emotion. At the heart of the exhibition is the Dreamcatchers series, from which the show Dreamcatchers. Suspended Metamorphoses takes its name. The dreamcatcher, an ancient amulet of Indigenous origin, is said 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 in Annalù’s works evoke precisely this function: a vortex where dreams and reality intertwine, where time and space are suspended, and where each visitor can rediscover a moment of stillness and reflection — an invitation to daydream.

These wall-mounted sculptures unfold as airy forms recalling ancient mandalas, cosmic vortices, and suspended blossoms. At their center, blown glass discs reveal the preciousness of origin; around them, butterfly wings and ginkgo leaves fragment and recompose in perpetual motion, as if the work itself were breathing with the universe.
Butterflies — symbols of transformation and soul — multiply into impossible mosaics, painted in colors that do not exist in nature yet shimmer with dreamlike beauty. The ginkgo biloba, a sacred and millenary tree, introduces a dialogue with resilience, duality, and the silent strength of time.

Glass, resin, and paper tell the story of a living nature intertwined with artifice and the sense of the instant.
And Venice — amphibious mother — is both the origin and destination of this poetics of matter: a city that appears and disappears in the mist, like Annalù’s works, which are not simply to be looked at but seem to hover and dissolve — light, shifting presences in continuous transformation.

Within the airport — the ultimate place of passage — these sculptures become silent travel companions, presences that offer a moment of suspension and beauty, transforming transit into experience. Annalù’s works are invitations to dream, to embark on a journey without destination: fragments of light and metamorphosis that speak of transformation, freedom, and breath.

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