Bella Cagnoli (2003) is a sculptor and stand-up comedian, who creates absurd works combined with everyday objects to manufacture a punchline. She transforms the objects’ context by allocating them a narrative or character. This offers the viewer a playful space based in a dark humour. ​

Her sculptures involving kinetics are light-hearted, brightly coloured demonstrations of failures. Involving themes of the weird, the pathetic, the unsettling, desperation and border self-deprecation. When doing a comedic performance success and failure is tethered between laughter and fear. Cagnoli’s sculptures sit in the middle of this: between joy and darkness, aspiration and failure, comedy and tragedy. She not only addresses and counters the permacrisis* we reside in, but the pressures of success. In attempt to offer a relief for herself and the viewer.​

*Permacrisis - a long period of great difficulty, confusion, or suffering that seems to have no end (Cambridge Dictionary)