MOOR IN SHENZHEN

Cross-Boundary Tribute: AI Dreaming in the Landscape
SIDA – Sino-Finnish Design Park, Shenzhen

The installation realized in Shenzhen, in collaboration with SIDA – Sino-Finnish Design Park, represents one of the highest and most complex points of my artistic path to date. Here I was able to construct a total black room, a completely dark space in which chromolographic works, videos in impermanence, sound, light, and olfactory elements entered into a direct relationship with the visitor’s body.

The works were no longer “paintings,” but perceptual windows. The RGBW lights, equipped with modular geometric masks, did not perform a decorative function but a climatic one: the entire environment shifted chromatically in synchrony, like a breathing organism. This synchronization transformed the space into a unified field, dissolving the distinction between individual works and the environment itself.

In dialogue with the chromolographic prints, 4K screens presented videos in impermanence: images in continuous transformation, in the same format as the physical works. The result was a deliberate perceptual ambiguity: printed matter and digital light became indistinguishable, making impermanence not a philosophical concept but a physical experience of vision.

A central element of the installation was the monumental water basin, approximately ten meters long and two meters deep, inserted into the darkness as a reflective and duplicating surface. The water, treated with inks and refined through continuous on-site testing, became a real perceptual device that expanded the space and returned to the physical nature of water its role as mediator between image and body.

Sound — composed by RobinG (Roberta Gilardi) — enveloped the space like a continuous mantle, while an olfactory component with earthy, vegetal notes reinforced the connection to TransLand, an imaginary territory in constant transformation.

At certain moments, it became clear to me that photographs and videos cannot truly convey what happens inside that space. The atmosphere is subtle, a perceptual quality that exists only through experience. For me, this was both a point of arrival and a foundation: Shenzhen exceeded expectations and gave me the motivation to push this model even further.