Torino Artscape is Artissima’s column highlighting current exhibitions in the city’s leading contemporary art institutions: a regular feature offering a glimpse into the most compelling exhibition programs, curatorial visions, and artistic expressions that animate Turin’s contemporary art scene. Torino Artscape invites you to explore Turin as an essential destination for art lovers, offering inspiration and cultural enrichment throughout the year.
This new episode is dedicated to OGR Torino.
Laure Prouvost. WE FELT A STAR DYING
Up to 10.05.2026
A floating presence inhabits the monumental void of Binario 1. At the center, a kinetic form unfolds its arms like tentacles or petals, moving in discontinuous rhythms, as if responding to imperceptible stimuli. Around it, suspended elements oscillate, generating light refractions, while a layered soundscape – composed of voices, frequencies and chants – envelops the space. As one moves closer, the experience becomes physical: metallic scents are encountered, whispers are heard, and one enters a dimension in which machine and organism seem to share the same sensitivity, where perception itself appears to constantly shift.
WE FELT A STAR DYING, curated by Samuele Piazza and on view until May 10, 2026 at OGR Torino, presents an immersive installation by Laure Prouvost, developed through research into quantum computing in collaboration with philosopher Tobias Rees and scientist Hartmut Neven. The work questions what it means to perceive reality from a quantum perspective, constructing a multisensory environment in which video, sound, sculpture and an olfactory dimension shape a system in continuous transformation, marked by variations and interference. The images, also produced through a quantum computer, emerge and dissolve into noise, eluding any stable and recognizable form. As often in the artist’s practice, logic bends, narratives multiply and overlap, while fragments of poetry surface from unexpected details. The suspended sculptures evoke the principle of entanglement through synchronized movements, while the central organism reacts to thermal variations, making a precarious balance visible. The journey culminates in a video that is դիտ viewed lying on the floor, with the gaze directed upward: here, experimental footage and processed images continuously recombine, suggesting a reality shared between human and non-human, natural and artificial. Within this space, the viewer is invited to unlearn the codes of everyday life and open up to new modes of perception, embracing an experience that resists any conventional approach.
ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet
Up to 10.05.2026
Intermittent lights, reflective surfaces and analog devices introduce an environment in which technology still appears as a field of experimentation. Screens, circuits and elementary structures evoke a phase in which the relationship between art and machine is shaped through trials and processes. Some works respond to the presence of the viewer, while others translate invisible signals into perceptible forms: sound, light and data become material, and the space takes on the character of a shared laboratory.
ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet, curated by Val Ravaglia and Samuele Piazza and on view until May 10, 2026 at OGR Torino, traces more than forty years of artistic experimentation, from the 1950s to the early 1990s, bringing together an international network of artists who worked with emerging technologies and hybrid methodologies. The exhibition unfolds across four sections and follows a chronological path, highlighting practices that integrate electronic media, mathematical principles and algorithmic systems. Cybernetics introduces a reflection on the relationship between artwork and audience, transforming the viewer into an active participant. At the same time, developments in telecommunications and computing enable collaborations across national borders, fostering networks and new communities. In many cases, technology is reclaimed from the military and corporate domains that shaped its development and reinterpreted as a shared resource. From research on perception to early experiments with virtual reality, the exhibition presents a landscape in which creativity and scientific thought intertwine, outlining the foundations of an imagery that remains relevant today.
– Text by Guia Agazzi