How do you invent the future? And how do you document it through photography?
H+ by Matthieu Gafsou – the third stop in the SuperNatural exhibition cycle – is a visual and visionary investigation into transhumanism, an intellectual movement aiming to enhance the human body through science and technology.

From the daily use of technologies that are already an integral part of our lives, such as pacemakers or smartphones, to fantasies about overcoming the physical and mortal dimensions of the human being, the Swiss artist’s series traces, from Switzerland to Russia, France to the Czech Republic, the people, objects, and core concepts of this movement, revealing its complexities and shadowy areas in subtle ways.

The exhibition, curated by Irene Alison and Paolo Cagnacci, presents a new interpretation of the photographic journey undertaken by Rifugio Digitale in exploring the dialogue between the natural and the artificial, as well as between the earthly and the spiritual dimensions. It is seen through the eyes of photographers who have examined the tensions that traverse contemporary life, reflecting on the position humans occupy on the planet. In this context, Matthieu Gafsou’s images not only reveal the boldest frontiers and the greatest paradoxes of technological progress, but also the existential dilemmas that the transhumanist projection presents: will we ever be ready to abandon the physical body in favor of a dimension increasingly hybridized with machines? How could we reconceptualize our existence if, in a post-human future, we could delay our encounter with death indefinitely?