Discovering the Alps.
An emotional storytelling experience unfolding along the visitor routes of an exhibition spread across the region.
The Forte di Exilles hosted the heart of the exhibition: its centrepiece was the Metavisual Model, an innovative multi-projection system that used three-dimensional video mapping on a scale model to offer a compelling overview of the Susa Valley, placing the fort and the events that shaped it within a broad historical perspective connected to the present day.
Beyond this, the halls of the fort allowed visitors to browse ancient volumes on the Alps thanks to two advanced digital lecterns; to uncover the semantic threads within place names, aided by a video graphic weaving together languages and peoples, signifiers and meanings; and to look at the Alps from several perspectives at once, thanks to a multi-screen wall devoted to the progressive transformation of the landscape by the climate and, inexorably, by human hand.
The Museo Diocesano di Susa became the stage for a multi-projection designed to immerse visitors in the dimension of mystery and the sacred. Here the still space within the splendid church that houses part of the museum was electronically modelled, breaking through perspective to extend the gaze towards the sacred peaks of the entire world, presenting a moving panoramic scene in high definition.
In Bardonecchia the exhibition explored the theme of modernity as the threshold of the mountain’s transformation: a narrative around the discovery, invention and conquest of new dimensions of Alpine space; the relationship between city and mountain; the physical transformation of the Alpine territory and its related architecture; and, finally, ecological sustainability and the resettlement projects of the future.
Bearing in mind the theme of the exhibition — articulated along an ideal vertical axis, from the plain of the city to the peaks of the Alpine range — and guided by the layout of the Palazzo delle Feste di Bardonecchia — set over several floors around a large central void — it was decided to tell this story through a large multi-projection onto a horizontal platform, clearly visible from the galleries of the upper floors, where the visitor route continued. The multimedia installations were completed by ten monitors on which vintage postcards, broken down into their component elements, offered, like the horizontal platform, a fascinating journey back through space and time.
Client: ARPANet for the Museo della Montagna
Location: Forte di Exilles, Museo Diocesano di Susa, Palazzo delle Feste di Bardonecchia