The artist works mainly with sculptural language and installation , taking care of both the material and the spatial device of the work. His research moves between scientific studies, philosophical notes and territorial explorations that focus on the imperceptible of everyday life. Coppola uses the cast technique to record time and the forms of its transience, carnal but at the same time unusual to the eye, approaching them through the geometry of light architectures that define the space of the work. Its intent is to act a semantic and perceptive shift of the link between nature and society through the use of industrial materials and / or fragments of nature, intimately affective but with the potential to shake a universal resonance.

The work on display in the spaces of L'Ascenso starts from the formal and conceptual research that the artist carries out on fragments and plant voids, capable of sedimenting the memory of a territory.

The Anglo-American bombings of 1943 , among the known consequences, damaged many palms in Villa Giulia and in the Botanical Garden of Palermo. In the exhibition space three casts are installed, in silicone rubber, made by the artist directly on the lesions of the mutilated palms, whose characteristic of the stem is that it does not regenerate. The display on show supports the blue negatives as if they were masks of surviving heroes and summarizes the verticality of the plant, bringing it back to a one-to-one relationship with the body and with the exhibition space. The research developed over a year between walks, explorations, encounters and archiving of historical material, translating into different narrative media: the photographic series of the project tells the signs of an unexpected narrative, traces of an apparently natural event; two mappings collect the scientific notes of an artistic process that goes as far as the sculptural plasticity of those empty material and at the same time poetic.

On the occasion of the Schegge exhibition, the booklet of the same name is presented in ed. limited and numbered that collects authorial material on the project that was created with the support of the Museum System of the University of Palermo - Botanical Garden.