Family Portraits of VNP – Very Normal People
PIER GIORGIO DE PINTO (IT/CH)
© Pier Giorgio De Pinto © 2026
Multimedia installation
May 3rd > 17th
Mon. – Fri. h. 17:00 > 21:00
Sat. – Sun. h. 15:00 > 21:00
Fabbrica del Vapore
Cisterne
Family Portraits of VNP – Very Normal People is a transdisciplinary art project that explores the concept of family in a post-human context, through the representation of 89 hybrid, symbiotic and shape-shifting units.
The work integrates images generated by Artificial Intelligence, interaction, speculative storytelling and expanded archival systems; taking the form of a visual, rhizomatic and conceptual ecosystem in constant evolution. The families depicted constitute a non-linear network of affective, symbolic and mutational relationships, where identity emerges as a dynamic and relational process.
Here, family is not about blood. It is about resonance.
There is no origin. There are collisions.
Images do not represent. They emerge.
Every face is an emotional mutation. Everybody is a threshold.
Genealogies expand through desire, through error, through abandonment, through love.
If you are reading this, you have already been included.
This is not an exhibition to be observed, but an ecosystem to be traversed.
concept and development of the project, production of images and audiovisual content, generative artificial intelligence systems, narrative development and digital archiving, scientific, artistic and speculative research, VNP GPT – Archivista Espanso, AI technologies and transmedia environments: Pier Giorgio De Pinto
thank you to: the 89 VPN families, to their mutations, to their drifts, to the visible entities, to those still in training and to those passing through this space, your presence is already part of the archive.
Pier Giorgio De Pinto All rights reserved
Project hosted thanks to the curatorial support of Alessandra Arnò and realized in collaboration with Visualcontainer.
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The event is accessible to people with reduced mobility.
Pier Giorgio De Pinto (Civitavecchia,1968) lives and works in Ticino, Switzerland. His artistic practice explores the relationship between image and concept in a constantly evolving visual society, marked by the emergence of new technologies and a redefinition of contemporary identity. His work spans generative art, new media and transmedia storytelling, exploring the role of artificial intelligence and digital systems as creative tools and conceptual devices. Through immersive installations, performances and interactive environments, De Pinto actively engages the audience, transforming the artistic experience into a participatory and perceptual process. His projects integrate diverse media — video, sound, digital codes, augmented and virtual reality — constructing ecosystems in which the real and the virtual intertwine. Central themes of his research are identity and otherness, encoding and decoding, body and territory. He has exhibited and performed at numerous international institutions, including Tate Britain and the Whitechapel Gallery (London), the Fondation Beyeler (Basel) and Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich). HEK – Haus der elektronischen Künste and Fondation Beyeler (Basel). Fondazione Pinault, Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Palazzo Ducale (Genoa), Viafarini DOCVA and BASE (Milan). He took part in the 7th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 11 in Zurich and Regionale 17 in Basel. At the same time, he works as a trainer, language reviewer and graphic designer for artificial intelligence systems; he is a specialist in machine learning and RLHF processes applied to the development of generative models.
Visualcontainer is an independent Italian platform dedicated to the research, promotion and dissemination of video art, media art and experimental audiovisual practices. Active since 2008 as a curatorial and cultural project, it organises exhibitions, screenings, talks and educational projects, building networks between artists, institutions and festivals in Italy and abroad.
