EMILIO FERRO: LIMINAL JOURNEY
St. NIKLAUS CHAPEL, GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND
15.02 – 02.03.2025
A project organized by art+château and Espace Muraille
Departing from a reflection on the history of the St. Niklaus Chapel in Gstaad, its spiritual meaning and importance to the local community, artist Emilio Ferro has created a site-specific installation that offers to the viewer an immersive and meditative experience. Combining light and sound, his artwork is a metaphor for the journey of life: it symbolically addresses the theme of transformation and the fluid crossing of liminal spaces and times.
Curator: Dr Valentina Locatelli
Artist: Emilio Ferro is an Italian artist born in 1988. In his works he mixes light, sound and visual arts, creating installations for public spaces, foundations and museums. A poetic vision that, starting from the contemplation of the natural landscape, translates into projects capable of distorting the viewer's perception of reality, through a clever use of innovative technical elements, to create a new artistic experience, harmonic and absolute.
Ferro creates works that are monumental and light at the same time: projects characterized by avant-garde technologies, which affect the space in an all-embracing way and are developed on a large scale, without affecting the nature of the places in a definitive way, but enhancing their mysticism. His installations glide delicately over woods, vineyards, volcanoes and become an element of narration of the ancestral relationship between man and natural elements. An interdisciplinary approach where art, science and nature become sources of mutual inspiration and creative experimentation.
www.emilioferro.it/en
