In Kalkar, Germany, there is a cooling tower of a nuclear power plant transformed into a merry-go-round. Those who ride on it feel as if they are flying, with the contours of the sky and fields of the Rhineland fading into each other, lap after lap. In Copenhagen, Denmark, there is a zero-emission incinerator that can burn 70 tonnes of waste every hour. On its green roof, some people go trekking and some slide down with skis on their feet. In the middle of the Baltic Sea, there is a forest whose branches whirl in the wind: it is a wind farm, whose blades create renewable energy. These are not utopias. They are the seeds of our future, firmly planted in the present. It is precisely this thread stretched between today and tomorrow that Luca Locatelli, one of the most awarded and published Italian photographers on the international scene, has chosen to exercise his gaze over, exploring the places where that symbiosis between man, nature and technology on which the solutions for the future of mankind are based. For a long time, our future has been the territory of utopian visions based on progress. But, if progress has allowed us to keep the problems mankind has had to deal with for centuries under control, it has made food available, medicines, energy and raw materials, this growth has destabilised the ecological balance of the planet in many ways. If it is true, as Yuval Noah Harari argues, that science is getting closer and closer to transforming Homo into Deus, it is precisely on this boundary that Homo is in danger of losing itself. What will be the goals at the top of humanity’s list of projects in the 21st century? What will be our possible next steps as a species? The urgency of answering these questions has led Locatelli to travel to the five continents, to enter the laboratories where researchers promise to satisfy the needs of the human race with their revelations, to walk in the lands where tradition and mythology merge with cutting-edge technology, to travel the frontiers where new ways of living are being experimented and our evolution is at stake. His solo show Future Studies: visions from a possible tomorrow – the first exhibition of the SuperNatural cycle, which will see some of the sharpest photographic gazes on the international scene come together at the Rifugio Digitale international scene – is a selection of the photographer’s long-term project. An itinerary among people and in places where science and technology are used to find the right balance between man and the planet he inhabits, in an attempt to reduce our impact and redefine our presence in a more sustainable way. The theme of the Supernatural, conceived as a reflection that runs through contemporary living, investing both our relationship with space and the way we project ourselves in time, in the face of an increasingly uncertain horizon between epidemics and the climate crisis, is declined by Locatelli in photographs and videos that, although firmly rooted in reality, arouse the wonder of science fiction. On the screens of the Rifugio Digitale, a meeting place between technology and art, his shots translate complex scientific truths into immediately readable visions and open windows onto other ways and other worlds in which, in Locatelli’s words, we can ‘re-engage that broken link between hope and the future’, inviting the viewer to take on a critical awareness and make a change of pace, in search of a new balance.