Anfiltered is the result of the crasis between the word anthropology and the action of filtering something through the eyes. 

The project, a partnership with the Museo di Antropologia ed Etnologia - Sistema Museale di Ateneo dell'Università di Firenze, reinterprets part of the collection of this important institution through an installative intervention, with which we’re offering a new narrative of the artifacts on display, aligning with the contemporary sensibility regarding decolonial issues. 

South American and New Guinea rooms are narrated in a new and expanded way using two different types of contributions.

The first intervention consists of the application of coloured filters to the display cases containing artifacts deemed sensitive because of their peculiarities, such as ritual objects and human remains. These objects are filtered and offered to the visitor under a new perspective.

The second one, on the other hand, concerns the application of textual materials, such as a quotation from the Yanomami people’s spokesman Davi Kopenawa, and other excerpts from travelogues of scholars, anthropologists and ethnologists, explorers of far away lands and civilizations, placed on some of the showcases in the rooms. This action aims to bring new dignity to the traditions of the people’s cultures on display and to show the visitors, through the sources, a part of the troubled journey these objects have undergone to get to us.

We believe that filtering through colors and narrating through the words of the figures and peoples who inhabit the museum's spaces will generate in the audience new reflections that will overthrow the nineteenth-century perspective on which the Museo di Antropologia ed Etnologia - Sistema Museale di Ateneo dell’Università di Firenze, was founded, telling the story with transparency and new mission. 

Let us gaze to the present and to today's great narratives, which question and stimulate us to read the past with different eyes!