Bentornato means welcome back — not as a greeting to a stranger, but as the recognition of someone who always belonged.
This work is rooted in the ten positive forces that Dante Alighieri weaves through the entire universe in his Divine Comedy: redemption, hope, love, divine order, guidance, growth, beauty, knowledge, grace, and unity. Not abstract concepts, but experiences written into matter — worn thresholds, rumpled pillows, light that chooses where it falls.
The work is a lenticular sequence of ten photographic images. Each image carries its own tension of colour: a background in the defining colour of the element, a circular image in the complementary colour. The images are never fully at rest — they flow into one another, shifting with the viewer as they move along the work.
At the centre, one image stands still. Square, fully visible, without tension. It shows an open door, two silhouettes on the threshold, light from within. Those who stop see it. Those who keep walking lose it again.
That is the structure of coming home: you have to stop for it yourself.
„l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle” — Paradiso XXXIII
