Waste to Paradise Memorial

For his solo exhibition at Muta Torino, Vincenzo Zancana (*1991, Salemi) creates a hybrid environment, reminiscent of a 3D model, reflecting on residual architectural and natural landscapes—spaces marked by decay and abandonment following intense human exploitation. In Waste to Paradise Memorial, works in plexiglass and aluminum, prints on acetate and silk are transformed into abstract forms and architectural structures, outlining a space that is both futuristic and commemorative.

Through an aesthetic of desolation and the experience of spectrality, the artist explores the symbolism of these marginal territories, where linear, anthropocentric time gives way to an organic temporality, suspended between ruin and renewal. In this liminal space, nature reclaims its domain, generating new landscapes. Zancana’s works embody an invisible, spiritual state that exists both as a latent reality within our urban imagination and as a starting point for a new visual grammar. Sounds, images, memories, and non-human speculations intertwine in a path of reimagination.

Spectrality thus becomes both a poetic strategy and a metaphor to reinterpret spaces usually ignored or excluded from our perception. The works on view move between cultural and architectural archaeologies and present or speculative ecologies, transforming the exhibition space into a residual park: a border zone where the natural and the urban merge, eventually dissolving into a new form of nature.