Reality is captured before it changes. Through 3D scanning, Lo Schiavo records fragments of the world encountered along his travels: ancient sculptures, objects and places, and the remains of structures marked by contemporary history, among them sites affected by the war in Ukraine. Each scan holds the physical form of its subject together with the memory and the cultural weight it carries.
The work moves past technical replication. Scanning becomes an act of preservation: what was bound to a single place and moment is lifted from it and rebuilt as image, where the object keeps its own story while entering a new one. What might have been lost is held in a form that endures.