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Annalisa Rossetto uses painting and material as investigative tools. Driven by curiosity about the experience of living, she conceives the canvas as a space of research in which to explore questions: works emerge as representations of the investigative process, free from the need to find answers.

For her, the blank canvas is an interlocutor: layers and transformations explore themes related to identity, relationships, and the changes in people’s lives.

Her practice develops through the use of heterogeneous materials—plaster, paper, fabrics, organic elements—which overlap and shape new surfaces on the virgin canvas. Different matrices arise, like the different modes of being of each individual: resistant, receptive, impermeable, fragile, incorruptible.

Through reciprocal contamination, thresholds are generated where experiences, encounters, and memories find space.

Colour intervenes as a metaphor for the occurrence of these. As it moves across different surfaces, it leaves unpredictable and unrepeatable traces, like events that affect each existence differently.

Finally, the emergence of luminous elements—such as glossy materials, gold or silver—invites observation of what remains after the succession of transformations.