Giuseppe Lo Schiavo presents Liturgica immersive digital installation in Milan
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo’s Liturgica is a monumental site-specific audio-video installation that merges technology, spirituality, and artistic vision in a singular immersive experience.
Staged within the deconsecrated church of San Paolo Converso in Milan, this work transforms the sacred space into a living, breathing visual environment.
In collaboration with Deloitte, the project inaugurates the Galleria Deloitte program, signaling a new intersection of art and innovation.
Projected on a custom-built LED wall, the piece unfolds as an uninterrupted visual loop, presenting images that ebb and flow like a lucid dream. Whales breach through vapor, birds dissolve mid-flight, and human figures emerge and disintegrate into cascading sequences of digital matter.
The visual flow bears no beginning or end, evoking the cyclical rhythms of ritual and dreamtime. Every element, from movement to color, is part of a larger choreographed hallucination where the sacred and synthetic blend seamlessly.
The immersive qualities of Liturgica go beyond visual spectacle. They engage the viewer in a reflection on technology not as an alien or deterministic force, but as an extension of human agency.
Artificial intelligence, depicted here by as a stream without direction or will, becomes a metaphor for latent potential, like water, it is shaped only by those who navigate it.
This Giuseppe Lo Schiavo’s interpretation reorients the discourse around machine autonomy and reinforces the importance of intentional human authorship in the digital age.
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo’s practice draws from contemporary theatrical language, and in Liturgica, this is apparent in the composition’s rhythm and performative tension.
The figures seem to wrestle with invisible forces or yield to a divine inertia, crafting a visual theology for the post-digital world. The work invites viewers into a shared mental landscape, one where transformation is constant and meaning is continuously rewritten.
By staging the installation in San Paolo Converso, a space once devoted to religious rites, Liturgica reactivates the building’s spiritual aura through digital ritual.
The convergence of church architecture, LED light, and sound positions the work within a lineage of sacred art, now reinterpreted through contemporary media.
The installation becomes both altar and interface, where the divine is not worshipped but co-created through human imagination and technological craft.
Ultimately, Liturgica reminds us that in an age defined by artificial intelligence and digital systems, wonder is not diminished, it is redirected.
The artist does not cede vision to the machine but uses it as a lens to reframe our role in shaping the future. It is not technology that drives us forward, but our ability to dream within and beyond it.
All images courtesy of Giuseppe Lo Schiavo
https://www.giuseppeloschiavo.com/
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