LITTLE ANNA
2024
Aluminum
Two mouths in aluminum: one remembers, the other forgets — both silent, both heavy with lost childhood.
Little Anna is a work composed of two small aluminum sculptures, resulting from the casting of a real dental mold belonging to a girl named Anna. Despite their small size, both pieces carry considerable physical and symbolic weight — they are fragments of childhood transformed into raw, metallic material, which preserve, in their forms, the tension between memory and transformation.
One of the pieces is more precise, with clear details of the original teeth still visible, although contaminated by aluminum residues that make it imperfect — like a truth that cannot be fully polished. The other, corroded and abstract, seems to no longer belong to anyone's body. It is an echo of the first, like a memory distorted by time, by the material, or perhaps by the brutality of the casting process itself.
One of the pieces is more precise, with clear details of the original teeth still visible, although contaminated by aluminum residues that make it imperfect — like a truth that cannot be fully polished. The other, corroded and abstract, seems to no longer belong to anyone's body. It is an echo of the first, like a memory distorted by time, by the material, or perhaps by the brutality of the casting process itself.
By choosing aluminum — cold, industrial, impersonal — to represent something as intimate and human as a child's mouth, the work creates a disturbing contrast. Little Anna is not just a tribute or a record; It is also a reflection on childhood as something that fossilizes, that is lost in the passage of time, and that, even when preserved, no longer belongs to the present.
These two mouths are doubly silenced: by the hardness of the material and by the absence of the body to which they belong. They are at the same time relics and ruins — heavy not only in their physical weight, but in what they suggest and in what they can no longer say.
These two mouths are doubly silenced: by the hardness of the material and by the absence of the body to which they belong. They are at the same time relics and ruins — heavy not only in their physical weight, but in what they suggest and in what they can no longer say.
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