IMAGINA is the 17th edition of the Biennale di Gubbio curated by Spazio Taverna. 

36 Italian artists of the latest generations were invited to participate in this event that continues the historic Biennale di Gubbio (1956-2016), reinterpreting it with new contemporary languages.

For the occasion, Numero Cromatico presented Guardiamo insieme il chiarore delle tenebre, an installation imagined to inhabit the chapel preceding the room of the Eugubine Tablets, the oldest historical find of pre-Roman writing in Italy, kept in the historic Palazzo dei Consoli in Gubbio.

The installation is composed of various elements: three sculptures and a framed panel, an art print, and a limited edition book. The three sculptures in the room – as well as the panel – feature hand-engraved texts on industrial rubber and are positioned in the space almost as if tracing a path of discovery. The engraved texts are not entirely visible and prompt the viewer to look, interpret, and invent what cannot be seen.

The book Il futuro è qui, da qualche parte, inaccessible in its entirety and placed in a display case together with the art print, is the third and final volume of a trilogy of poems written with the aid of artificial intelligence. In this case, the artist used S.O.N.H. (acronym for Statements Of a New Humanity), an AI instructed to generate texts about the future of humanity.