
I am a composer and audiovisual artist.
Human experience arises from the encounter between the world and the way we perceive it, interpret it, and transform it into choices. This process is never neutral: it can be shaped by power, guided by desire, transformed through forgiveness, and continually renewed by creativity.
Through images and music, I tell stories that explore the human experience. Each work invites the viewer to share a journey in which meaning gradually emerges through the encounter between images, sounds, and the experience of those who watch and listen.
This is Quod quaeris ars.
Literally, it means “what you seek” and conveys an invitation: within my works, you may discover something of your own, expressed in different forms.

Et lux facta est (2026)
an audiovisual work in four parts
We do not perceive the world.
We perceive an interpretation of the world.
Et lux facta est explores how the world is perceived and constructed through human experience.
What we call light, sound, image, or reality does not exist immediately as such. Before perception there are signals, fluctuations, waves, and transformations. Through mathematically generated visual structures and original music, the work investigates this passage while bringing together physical, biological, philosophical, and human dimensions.
The cycle consists of four parts:
Ab origine
Fluctuations
Aisthesis
Rendering the Dark and Silent World
Ab origine
Every beginning begins with a propagation.
Ab origine explores the moment before form, before matter, before language. Filaments emerge from a distant source and spread without describing a specific reality, becoming a metaphor for every origin: light, sound, thought, memory and human relationships.
Not a completed creation, but a presence gradually emerging, like a breath expanding and contracting.
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Before every image there is light.
Before every sound there is vibration.
Before every relationship there is the possibility of encounter.
Ab origine inhabits this initial space, where forms have not yet fully appeared, yet energies, tensions and possibilities are already present.
Breath provides the generative principle of the entire work. The music unfolds through a slow alternation of expansion and contraction, whith the visual structure following a similar process, progressively emerging from an indeterminate condition.
The source evoked by the title is not limited to physics or cosmology. It may be understood as the origin of a light signal, a sound vibration, a thought, a perception, or a human relationship.
Rather than offering a fixed explanation, the work invites the viewer to dwell in the moment when something begins to appear and the world, before being fully recognized, slowly takes shape.
Fluttuazioni
Every propagation transforms what it passes through.
Fluctuations explores the diffusion of a signal, suggesting that what spreads through space can also become a metaphor for relationships, emotions, and the transformations that shape our experience.
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The work begins with the idea of propagation. A signal spreads, transforms the space it crosses, creating condensations and rarefactions, waves and particles. Rather than illustrating a physical phenomenon, the work translates its underlying structure into an audiovisual experience.
Through fractal imagery and original music, processes that normally unfold in fractions of a second are expanded in time, allowing the viewer to inhabit them. The music accompanies this continuous expansion with a dynamic, rhythmic language, while the images gradually evolve from point-like configurations into wave-like forms.
Propagation, however, belongs not only to the physical world. Every gesture, every word and every emotion extends beyond the instant in which it is born. Human relationships are equally shaped by moments of density and distance, of closeness and separation, by resonances that continuously transform the way we relate to one another.
The work therefore does not yet tell us what the signal means. It simply reveals the moment in which something begins to move.
Aisthesis
Before we make sense of the world, we first receive it.
Aisthesis explores the suspended moment in which something coming from outside reaches our senses and becomes the possibility of experience.
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While Fluttuazioni explored the propagation of a signal, here the focus shifts to its arrival.
The video opens with stillness. The music, flowing, suspended and almost contemplative, creates a space of quiet expectancy. Then a narrow opening allows light to enter. Nothing is explained yet; something has simply begun to reach us.
During the work, two visual elements from Fluttuazioni briefly reappear. There they represented the signal as it propagated; here they acquire a different meaning. They no longer describe what spreads through space, but what is being received. The same images become something new because the point of view has changed.
Aisthesis is not only about sensory perception. Every human relationship begins with an act of reception. A face, a voice, a glance, a word, or even a silence reaches us before thought has the chance to interpret it. Friendship, love, conflict and encounter all begin with this primordial openness.
For this reason, the work deliberately avoids interpretation. It remains suspended within the moment of reception, when the world has not yet become meaning, but is simply presence.
Rendering the Dark and Silent World
Every interpretation transforms possibility into experience.
Rendering explores the moment when the brain organizes the signals received through the senses and constructs what we call reality. The world does not immediately appear as images, sounds, or meanings: it is interpretation that transforms what we perceive into the experience we live.
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Among the four works of Et lux facta est, Rendering represents the final stage: the construction of meaning.
What surrounds us does not exist, for us, as image or sound until our perceptual system interprets it. Without our senses—and without the work performed by the brain—the world would remain nothing more than a collection of signals, devoid of form, colour, and meaning. Every living being constructs its own reality through the way it perceives what surrounds it.
The work extends this reflection beyond sensory perception. The same interpretative process shapes every human experience: relationships, memory, emotions, ideas, and the way we understand both others and ourselves. What we call reality is inseparable from the interpretation we continuously construct.
The images do not illustrate this process; they enact it. Forms seem to emerge spontaneously, take shape, and dissolve again, suggesting that every meaning arises from a fragile balance between what the world offers and what the mind recognizes.
The world becomes reality only when someone makes sense of it.
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Videos, selected video excerpts and derived images are available as prints (canvas or photographic paper) upon request.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
Freedom – The Y Form (2025/26)
Every choice is the shape of freedom and creates a unique path.
Four audiovisual works explore the paradox of freedom: every choice transforms infinite possibility into a single reality. The recurring Y becomes the symbol of choice and, ultimately, of the shape we give to our lives.
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At the heart of the project is the Y shape, understood as a point of bifurcation: a place of separation and decision. It becomes a symbol of choice, freedom and, more profoundly, of existence itself as a continuous encounter with diverging possibilities.
The project emerges from the interaction between mathematically generated visual structures and musical composition, developed in parallel rather than in an illustrative relationship. Images and sounds share a common expressive path, creating an immersive environment in which trajectories multiply, intersect and gradually take shape.
The Y does not represent a single crossroads but a recurring structure: every decision generates new branches, new openings and new limitations. Every choice excludes other possibilities, yet it is precisely this exclusion that makes a path possible.
The four works forming the cycle trace a progression:
- The Path – origin and initial direction;
- Field of Possibilities – the opening toward multiple possibilities;
- Within the Choice – immersion into the space of decision;
- The Y Once Again – return, transformation and definition.
Every choice does more than alter the path ahead of us: it helps shape who we become.
The Path
A path emerges from emptiness, defining a possible direction.
Field of Possibilities
Multiple trajectories unfold and overlap, creating a field of possibilities.
Within the Choice
The gaze enters the space of possibilities, drawn by their internal tensions.
The Y Once Again
Among possible paths, one is chosen: freedom emerges as limitation.
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Videos, selected video excerpts and derived images are available as prints (canvas or photographic paper) upon request.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
About Forgiveness (2025/26)
Audiovisual diptych exploring two complementary modes of forgiveness: a slow process of covering and a sudden rupture that reveals what had remained hidden.
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When we are hurt by others, the wound is immediate. Forgiving others becomes a process unfolding over time: a gradual covering, a layering that tends to obscure what has caused the injury.
Self-forgiveness follows a different path. It often emerges only after time has passed, appearing as a sudden rift — a fracture that reveals, retrospectively, the harm done and the mistake, sometimes in its most absurd dimension.
If in the first case forgiveness acts as a covering, in the second it takes the form of a revelation. Two opposing temporalities, two complementary movements.
Is there ever a moment when forgiveness is truly complete, or does it continue to evolve with us?
Images derived from the work

Forgiveness – Spiral with Leaves

Forgiving Myself – A Rift on the Absurd
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Selected images derived from the project are available as limited edition prints upon request (canvas or photographic paper), accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
The Shape of Desire (2026)
An audiovisual work in two movements: Matter and Spirit.
The project is based on the idea of a shared generative form capable of producing different outcomes depending on the direction it takes.
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In Matter, desire appears as a tension toward multiple objects: whatever emerges is unstable, disperses quickly and is rapidly consumed, never consolidating into a lasting form. Repetition does not generate development but an endless sequence of transient variations.
In Spirit, the same generative energy does not exhaust itself but transforms. Forms do not dissolve; instead, they change while preserving an inner continuity, as though a deeper identity persisted beneath their visible manifestations. The image tends to extend beyond its own boundaries, suggesting a space larger than what is actually shown.
Music and image unfold in parallel as autonomous yet converging processes. Rather than illustrating one another, they create a perceptual experience in which the viewer is invited to dwell within the tension between instability and permanence, without seeking a final resolution.
Desire is not judged; it is observed through its different possibilities of transformation.
The Shape of Desire
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Selected images derived from the project are available as limited edition prints upon request (canvas or photographic paper), accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
The Power (2025/26)
An audiovisual diptych consisting of The Two Social Climbers and Bubbles.
The work arises from the observation of a recurring dynamic: the desire for affirmation that drives individuals and groups to pursue advantage, prestige and dominance.
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In The Two Social Climbers, two figures follow parallel trajectories within a larger structure that contains and surpasses them. Although they appear to be the protagonists, they do not occupy the true center of the image. Their movement leaves behind traces and tensions that suggest consequences already unfolding. The work presents itself as a suspended moment: it does not tell a story but reveals a condition.
In Bubbles, what remained implicit in the first part gradually becomes visible. Consequences spread through space as autonomous phenomena, taking on multiple and ever-changing forms. The bubbles may seem light and harmless, yet they become symbols of propagation, influence, conditioning and fear. The two climbers reappear only as marginal and concealed presences.
The two works therefore do not portray power as an institution or as a single interpretation of authority, but as a dynamic: a force born from competition, conquest and self-assertion that continues to propagate far beyond its apparent protagonists.
From a musical perspective, the cycle unfolds as a continuous transformation. The ironic opening march is progressively disrupted by an increasingly intrusive sonic presence that breaks its apparent balance. In Bubbles, the rhythmic character of the march survives only in distorted form, becoming progressively more dramatic until it culminates in the final confrontation.
Power does not coincide with those who wield it: it continues to act through the effects it leaves behind.
The Power
Images derived from the work

The Two Social Climbers

Bubbles
Availability
The cycle is conceived as an audiovisual work and as a potential installation.
Selected images derived from the project are available as limited edition prints upon request (canvas or photographic paper), accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
For information: sergiopallante.art@gmail.com
Other Works

Communicating the Inexpressible (2025)
Video
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The work does not offer a message but an attempt: to approach what resists language.
When words are no longer sufficient, images and music become the place of a possible encounter. They do not illustrate meaning; they seek to make its presence perceptible. They proceed through hints, suspensions and fragments, allowing a fragile and unresolved tension to emerge.
Only images and sounds can move beyond the verbal dimension to communicate something other directly—something that remains inexpressible precisely because no translation or verbal equivalent truly exists.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist (current availability: 19/20)
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Photographic print A4
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Video file mp4
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The Sirens’ Song – Swallowed by the Single Thought Current (2025)
Video
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Ulysses still lives within each of us. The sirens circle overhead like vultures, yet their voices remain seductive and inviting. Who has the courage to bind themselves to the mast of their own life’s ship rather than surrender to their enchanting call?
The “single voice” pierces and traverses us. Those fellow travelers who fail to anchor themselves should not be condemned; they deserve understanding and compassion.
Every age has its own sirens. Every journey demands the courage to recognize them.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – numbered and signed by the artist
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Photographic print A4
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Dans le brouillard de la nuit (2025)
Some paths become visible only as we walk them.

Video
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There are moments when our path is not clearly illuminated. We move as if through a fog, guided more by intuition than by certainty.
The image emerges from this very sensation: forms that surface and fade away, fleeting presences that seem to suggest a direction without ever fully revealing it.
Perhaps it is not necessary to see every detail of the journey. Sometimes it is enough to keep moving forward, accepting that part of the path will remain hidden.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – Numbered and signed by the artist
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Photographic print A4
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Video file mp4 (current availability: 19/20)
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War (2025)
Every war continues to resonate long after the silence of weapons.

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War is an audiovisual work that translates the concept of conflict into an abstract and synesthetic structure.
The work explores the cyclical nature of violence, the loss of balance, and the constant tension between order and destruction.
The absence of narrative or historical references makes the conflict universal, transforming it into a perceptual and emotional experience rather than a descriptive one.
War does not represent an event: it makes it felt.
With its musically lacerating and enveloping atmospheres, the work does not intend to commemorate a tragic event while keeping the listener in an external and detached position.
On the contrary, the music emotionally involves the listener, projecting them into the very process in which the tragedy unfolds.
Listening does not observe: it participates, sharing a tension that develops over time without offering consolation or distance.
60×40 cm – canvas print
Limited edition – Numbered and signed by the artist
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Photographic print A4
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Video file mp4
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Voracity – When the Sword Fell Silent (2025)
Video
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The work takes its starting point from fragments of “Canto General” by Pablo Neruda, dedicated to the conquest and exploitation of his land.
Violence and commerce are placed in relation, showing how, once the time of weapons ends, the time of division begins.
The image makes this dynamic visible through a form of predation, in which a larger structure tends to engulf a smaller one.
Music and images proceed in parallel, sharing a sense of inevitability.
In the finale, the emergence of a clear and crystalline timbre introduces a sonic rarefaction that alludes to a stylization of economic value, leaving open the ambiguity between the end of calculation and inner emptiness.
Fragments from the text by Pablo Neruda:
Quando la spada ebbe tregua arrivò il mercante con la sua borsa
La terra andava da un signore all’altro, finchè tutta l’azzurra geografia fu spartita
E il mondo fu diviso fra Coca-Cola Inc, Anaconda, Ford Motors e altre società
La United Fruit Company si riservò la parte più succosa
Translation:
When the sword fell silent the merchant arrived with his bag
The land passed from one master to another until the entire blue geography was divided
And the world was divided among Coca-cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors and other companies
The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the juiciest part
60×40 cm – canvas print
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Freedom – Unbekannt (2025)
Video
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The work is inspired by events that took place in Berlin between 1960 and 1989, during the years in which the city was divided. In an area of West Berlin, several crosses bore only the inscription Unbekannt (Unknown) together with the date of death, without any indication of the victim’s name or birth.
These crosses commemorated people who were killed while attempting to cross the Wall from East Berlin. In many cases, their identities were never established. Similar scenes occurred throughout the city over the years.
In memory of those who valued freedom enough to sacrifice their own lives, the work deliberately renounces music, replacing it with sounds and noise in order to avoid any form of emotional commentary or aestheticization.
The absence of music is a conscious artistic choice: it rejects sentimental interpretation and allows silence, noise and absence themselves to bear witness to a memory that has remained without a name.
To the desperate unknown heroes
killed during their mad run
their hearts already beyond
the silent Wall
Sergio Pallante
60×40 cm – canvas print
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Availability and Editions
The works presented on this site are available in the following formats:
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Each edition is strictly limited and will not be reproduced once the edition is sold out.
All works are original creations by Sergio Pallante.
Prints and digital files are produced in limited, numbered and signed editions.
Each purchase is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, signed by the artist, indicating the title of the work, year of creation, format, and number of the copy within the edition.
The musical, audiovisual and digital works are also registered with SIAE (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers).
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