Starting from a video collage that reworks and recomposes elements drawn from Renaissance portraiture and Romantic painting, I created two canvas prints displayed side by side as a diptych.

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Through an augmented reality app, once the diptych is framed with a mobile phone or tablet, the two images come to life and begin to interact. Figures and details move, emerge from the surface, and extend into the surrounding exhibition space, generating a dense visual dialogue that feels like a poetic reading suspended outside time.

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On one side, a reader; on the other, a musician. Together they recite a passage from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet celebrating the beauty and ferocity of nature. As the work unfolds, the serene and luminous atmosphere of the Renaissance landscape is slowly undone, giving way to a world invaded by waste and consumed by flames.

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“The earth that’s Nature’s mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave, that is her womb…”

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Shows

Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand - 2021

NordArt Fair, Germany - 2021

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Credits
Concept, art direction, animation, editing - Francesca Fini

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Media
Interview for Videoformes - open link