Blue Thread is an artistic study on the cover installed over the Presena glacier to reduce its melting.

Five months a year, the Consortium of Ponte di Legno-Tonale covers the glacier, not to prevent it from melting but in the hope of slowing down its demise.

In July 2020, under a sweltering sun, Anne spent several days on the Presena glacier filming for her feature documentary Earth Protectors. The covered glacier had a strong visual impact on her: this new landscape brought her to the realization that she was actually physically and visually experiencing the new era that many scientists call the Anthropocene. This inspired her to create an artistic study where the protagonist is the blue thread used to sew the materials that cover the glacier.

Following the blue thread through the images brings the viewer beyond the documentative physicality of the covered glacier to a visual experience through space and time. The blue thread, a symbol of adversity as well as continuity, representing both the decadent end of an era as well as the hope and the resilient capacities of our species.