The exhibition Franco Ionda‘s exhibition Tormento e Luce, an exhibition curated by Serena Tabacchi and organised in collaboration with Forma Edizioni, consist of a site-specific work, created by the artist specifically for this exhibition space, which moves skilfully between the physical and digital worlds. Inside the Refuge, the viewer will be taken on a journey from “torment to light”, through a new interpretation of “wounded” stars, which in the artist’s language lose a point in their fall from the sky to the earth. Precipitated by a desperate lack of harmony, the stars dematerialise in a digital fluid that crosses the 16 monitors of the gallery, starting from a first aluminium and tar paper board in red and then arriving at the light in a second board in blue that concludes the exhibition. The Florentine artist’s work leads the viewer into the abyss of a hybrid and indefinite space, a place where the earthly perception of time and space are annulled. The illusory dynamism of the reclaimed aluminium boards is well matched by the ethereal stasis of the decisive, pure and apparently borderless colours that the artist places at the two ends of the digital work as if to balance the turbulent restlessness that pervades the gaze of the young woman in the initial panel. The digital segment of the work will be available as a unique edition in NFT (Non-Fungible Token) format on the KnownOrigin platform.