Sergio Racanati's Immersive Installation at Rome's Ex Elettrofonica

Sergio Racanati (b. 1982, Bisceglie) presents 'Luctus – A consciousnesscHoral soul' at Galleria Ex Elettrofonica in Rome, curated by Gianluca Brogna and running until November 13. The exhibition combines sound, scent, and visuals into what the artist calls an immersive experience, centered on purification rituals inspired by his November 2023 residency in Oman. It features four ceramic pieces with incense grains (known as 'tears of angels'), six photographs where sand becomes context and subject, and a 3.5-hour artist film 'Debris/Detriti' documenting his journey. The film, accompanied by a 24-hour sound score by Kinki Von Berlinki, uses blur, color, and distortion to evoke memory and trance. Racanati cites influences including Toni Negri, Michel Foucault, Maurizio Lazzarato, Zygmunt Bauman, and Byung-Chul Han, and describes the work as a call to trance and ritual passage toward change.