Between what is visibly perceptible and what our senses cannot grasp there exists a liminal space, a web of conflicts and latent potential. A suspended threshold, which is not only physical but also mental, which stimulates the passage towards new levels of knowledge.

Luca Spano's After the Last Image project explores the biological and technological limits of seeing, investigating the relationship between the visible and the invisible and, in particular, that gray area between the two: the last known point, an area of border whose mystery invites discovery.

The photographic and installation works that make up After the Last Image , the winning project of the 2022 Photography Strategy call, explore the limits of vision and the speculative processes that lead to knowledge of the world. The research residencies carried out during the project, a fundamental part of the conception, allowed us to delve into heterogeneous stimuli from different disciplines. At the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Spano explored that academic trend that has as its object the visible and the practices of the gaze, questioning what an image is and what its role is in contemporary society.

The reflections on the ways in which the visual instrument enters into the study of reality then led the artist to associate photographic practice with geography. A period of residence at the Inter-University Department of Territorial Sciences, Projects and Policies (DIST) of the Polytechnic of Turin has in fact allowed us to delve deeper into the figure of the geographer, a scholar who, starting from sight, creates those distortions of space that we commonly call "maps". ”.

During his residency at the Deutsches Optisches Museum in Jena, Germany, Luca Spano focused on what it means to see in a process that, starting from optical experience, comes to consider cultural, sociological and anthropological implications.