EXSTASIS DIVING INTO MAGIC
EXSTASIS
Exstasis is an immersive projection mapping project that illuminated the church of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria in Palermo, enchanting more than 10,000 visitors while the show was ongoing.
A completely virtual environment
Exstasis aims to immerse viewers in a completely virtual environment, surrounding them with visual stimuli, music, and light effects, transporting them out of the surrounding space and breaking, for the whole performance, the existential routine that binds them to a “here and now”.
- Luca Pintacuda
- Nino Serafino
- Lidia Falletta
- Fabrizio Pedone
- John M. Poultry
- Maurizio Alario
28 and 29 December 2019, October 2020, Church of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, Palermo
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A story in which projections break the static nature of the rich decorative apparatus, dematerializing and setting the stuccos and frescoes in motion, animating with lights and colours the statues placed along the edge of the nave.
EXSTASIS
Exstasis retraces the five stages of mysticism outlined by Evelyn Underhill, an English Anglo-Catholic writer of the 20th century: awakening, purification, illumination, the dark night of the soul, and union.
An immersive and suggestive experience, in which technology does not isolate or enslave us to contingency but instead binds us to each other, bringing us into contact with mystery and wonder.
DATA
EXSTASIS
The project was selected from among the finalists of the prestigious Lille Video Mapping Awards, an International festival that honours the best immersive experiences.
Church of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, Palermo
visitors
almost 10,000 visitors attended Exstasis in December 2019 and October 2020
ansi lumen
6 professional projectors for an overall luminous flux of 125000 lumen
Press Releases
More than 34 articles, news reports, interviews in the general and specialist press.