The Santuario project rescues abandoned, historically interesting or deindustrialised places through photogrammetry and painting to create a new virtual world.

Santuario is a virtual tour of a small floating world, levitating impassively somewhere between the sky and the sea.

Made up of many photogrammetries taken over the course of a year and a half, the project is composed of small fragments of reality that are of particular interest, whether for their historical context, for having an aesthetic related to abandonment or “terrains vagues”, or for establishing a dialogue around deindustrialisation and the fossils in the landscape that it leaves behind.

Through the 3D register, these specific places are “frozen” and sheltered in the cloud, immune to the passage of time and immovable, indifferent to the fact that their physical version is about to disappear forever. Protected in this way under the digits, the ensemble is consecrated in a kind of sanctuary of abandonment and gives a divine and celestial character to these forgotten spaces, all of this being crossed by a pictorial intention and also constituting an immersive invitation to those who pass through it towards a place of refuge, but also of reflection on painting that expands to new digital media.

Project selected in the II Call for Artistic Residencies 2023