This summer we traveled to Mallorca, where we were welcomed into the artist house of Anna-Alexandra – a space that feels like an extension of her being. Books, textures, masks, and fragments of work-in-progress surround her, creating an atmosphere both intimate and inspiring. Encountering her in this setting, with her graceful posture and unmistakable long hair, we immediately sensed the same energy that fuels her work. From here, our conversation unfolded.

A Multidisciplinary Flow

What struck us most is how deeply literature and philosophy form the core of her practice. Anna-Alexandra is, above all, a reader. Since childhood, her work has been born from words – from Nietzsche to Foucault, from Lacan to Wittgenstein. She allows these voices to seep into her thoughts, and from there into visual, performative, and poetic expressions. Her sensuality is not erotic, but political – a corporeality woven between artist and gesture, a language of the body that resists silence and embraces complexity.

Her art moves fluidly across forms: painting, collage, sculpture, and video, often created in collaboration with her partner, filmmaker Elia Nedkov. During the pandemic, she imagined papier-mâché masks that continue to enchant both collectors and audiences. And then there is her performance work – body-based, visceral, and mythic. For Anna-Alexandra, performance is raw poetry in motion, language that breathes and expands into myth, allowing her to connect directly with an audience in a way that feels both intimate and universal.

Art as a Sacred River

In a time when protest and destruction often overshadow dialogue, Anna-Alexandra offers another kind of resistance: thoughtful, poetic, radically human. She reminds us that art is not simply an object but an act, a living discourse. Her voice feels like a sacred current, inviting us to step outside our certainties and enter into a deeper, more fragile space of becoming.

For us at ZAZI, Anna-Alexandra embodies what we call the ZAZI Woman – a woman guided by curiosity, by freedom of thought, by a restless spirit that refuses to be confined. She is a weaver of worlds, drawing strength from literature, philosophy, and myth, yet always rooted in the present moment. Her work carries the ZAZI spirit: poetic, rebellious, tender, and transformative.

Standing in her Mallorca home, surrounded by her words and creations, we felt not only inspired but also reminded of why we do what we do – to honor women like her, who create from a place of deep humanity and who remind us that art, language, and life itself are infinite fields of possibility.

Find more of Anna-Alexandra's work here.