The Story

In Italian, we say “Ti sento.” It doesn’t simply mean “I understand you” (I feel you). It is an embodied, intimate expression that means:

“By meeting your gaze, by brushing my hands against yours, I perceive you and therefore, I know who you are”.

The Concept

Born from a reflection on digital intimacies, the SENTO series explores human connections when they are mediated by technology and works of art.

It raises the question: “What happens to pleasure and sensuality when they lie at the boundary between the real and the virtual? Between the intimate and the collective?”

The work functions as an abstract yet sexual sculpture, a form that evokes desire without ever fixing it into an explicit representation. Here, abstraction becomes a tool of displacement and a means of exploring sensations in an open and sensitive way…

Sento no. 1

Tenderness

The Creation Process

The development of SENTO No. 1 : Tenderness begins with the design of organic forms inspired by the curves of the body. These volumes are then shaped and deformed in PETG, a translucent material whose plasticity and fragility allow for the exploration of light and tactile tension.

On the interactive level, the sculptures are equipped with exciters that respond to the contact of the hands. This touch becomes a signal, then sonic material.

The generated sounds result from a hybridization of digital synthesis and recorded voices, then spatialized in space. When all four sensors are activated simultaneously, the sculpture reaches its point of orgasm: the “climax.”

The Core Message

In a global context marked by conflict, social fragmentation, and information overload, our research and creations advances the hypothesis that immersive practices grounded in emotional sharing can create spaces of affective resistance, rehumanization, and renewed attention to others.

We explore the “peace and love” potential of these dispositifs and artworks: their capacity to foster empathy, cooperation, collective awareness, and relational care through artistic forms that place society, the body, emotion, and human connection at the very center of the techno-artistic experience.