Annalisa Papaccio

Annalisa Papaccio is a visual artist who lives and works in Italy. Her artistic practice is rooted in deep listening and in a non-programmed process grounded in shamanic practice: the artwork is not constructed for an external purpose, but happens as the manifestation of a passage between different levels of experience. Since adolescence, she has been drawn to art and to the symbolic and esoteric dimensions of knowledge. Her path has developed along two parallel directions. On one side, an academic education in economics, which led her to become a university lecturer; on the other, a shamanic and symbolic research path, including studies in radiesthesia and sacred numerology. These two trajectories find their point of convergence in painting, which Annalisa experiences as an act of mediation and crossing. The pictorial gesture becomes a space of passage in which rational knowledge and shamanic knowledge do not oppose each other, but coexist. Images are not designed in advance: they emerge, they manifest, they carry information. A self-taught artist, Annalisa conceives each artwork as a threshold. Her works explore duality, the relationship between the human being, nature, and the cosmos, and the role of the human as a bridge betwee...