Artist statement

Anthony Dexter Giannelli (1994, US) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Using a material language from my childhood religious and Panamanian cultural learning, which includes snakeskin, gold, and incense oils, my work exports the uniquely physical into unseen virtual worlds. My practice uses this dichotomy to question how we, as immaterial beings, interact with the world when our corporeal physical form is limited, exploring themes of safety, pain, trauma, and authenticity.

My visual language is informed by personal experiences of bodily injury, chronic illness, danger, and their grip on all aspects of a life lived in the aftermath. Starting with the injuries I sustained after falling 7 meters into a river at night and only being rescued the following morning, the course of my journey—through constant renegotiation of body and self—has moved through illness and dysfunction across an interwoven web of internal and external systems.