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Biological matter is treated as an observable, measurable, and unstable system.
Born in Bologna. Lives and works in Fano, Italy.
Sanna Denise trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, graduating in Painting with a specialization in Sculpture. Her practice is grounded in seriality and repetition as operative devices through which she constructs visual systems of analysis.Her work adopts anatomical and scientific models as a structural framework, unfolding through processes of observation, measurement, and classification. Human, animal, and vegetal systems are dissected and recombined, generating hybrid forms and unstable configurations.
The images take the form of study plates: surfaces where biological matter is treated as observable material and subjected to visual protocols that destabilize its readability. Grids, coordinates, and annotations suggest a language of control that remains only partial, continually disrupted by error, deviation, and interference.
Drawing, sculpture, and mixed media converge into a practice that moves beyond representation, constructing instead a field of observation. Forms emerge as open systems, continuously redefined.
She was awarded at the 16th International Sculpture Prize Edgardo Mannucci. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Italy and internationally, including Premio Arte Laguna (Venice) and ARTBOX.PROJECT (Miami, Venice, Zurich).