The artist is inspired by the pictorial field created by Mattia Bortoloni in the Sanctuary of Vicoforte: that very immense fresco painted under the largest elliptical dome in the world, where the sublime technique of scenographic artifices increases in the observer the desire for transcendence already inspired by the tromp-l’oeil scattered over an area of more than six thousand square meters. An impetus to spiritual asceticism that in Ferro’s work is transformed into light, matter as elusive as ever, which from the enclosed space of the Chapel of San Rocco surprisingly finds a way out to heaven.

Completing the installation is a sound intervention created by the artist for the occasion: after recording the magnetic fields present in the Chapel of San Rocco and the Sanctuary, and the sounds coming from the surrounding landscape, Ferro sampled some fragments of them to compose the psychoacoustic soundtrack that embraces his work.

Chapels such as that of San Rocco, scattered throughout the Monregalese territory, constituted in ancient times a kind of map that pilgrims heading to the Sanctuary of Vicoforte used as reference points in their itinerary. Around the 17th century, thousands of faithful faced long and difficult journeys to reach this place of worship, which became famous for its numerous miracles and whose importance was comparable to the modern sanctuaries of Lourdes and Medjugorje. The spiritual quest, accompanied by the hope of witnessing a miracle, gave this journey a deep and symbolic significance. Similarly, today, the contemporary pilgrim undertakes the journey into nature and art in search of extra-ordinary sensations, of grounding, but also of discovery and elevation. A profoundly transformative experience.