The Danilele Costa work was created in a hospice which, through the use of thermal cameras, replaces light with heat and constructs a video installation that observes the thermal transition from life to death. The body as landscape and heat as trace become the leading principle of a study that reinterprets the transition between presence and absence. In the language of editing, fade-ins and fade-outs mark appearance and disappearance; Costa reverses their meaning, seeking to see beyond the fade. Bodies become thermal landscapes, vibrant fields that trace contacts, distances, and the persistence of vital energy. The large size of the projections invites the audience to share in the time of waiting.

Designed by Ignazio Gardella and rebuilt after 1996, the PAC is a flexible space spread over several levels, defined by the large glass window that opens the building onto the garden of the Villa Reale. Through our intervention, the architecture becomes an active device, entering into the very functioning of the work and helping to define its scale, perception, and collective enjoyment.

Our exhibition design project starts from the artist's works and immediately seeks a dialogue with the PAC: what we proposed is an intervention that attempts, through a narrative stratagem, to act simultaneously on the work and the building. Our idea was to make the viewing of this video a collective ritual and to propose a leap in scale, making the body at the center of Costa's work a landscape to look at, an unexpected sunset that appears through the windows of the building designed by Ignazio Gardella and creates a new horizon.

Our concept was to transform the viewing of this video into a collective ritual and to suggest a shift in scale, making the body at the center of Costa's work a landscape to be contemplated.