La chiesa ipogea di San Sepolcro, Umbilicus di Milano. Storia e restauro
A photographic project commissioned by the Superintendency of Milan during the restoration of the Hypogeum Church of San Sepolcro. The work reveals the dialogue between light, stone, and time within one of the city’s most ancient sacred sites, rediscovered in its entirety after centuries of transformation.
In 2021 I created a photographic project dedicated to the Hypogeum Church of San Sepolcro in Milan, as part of the restoration promoted and directed by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan City of Milan. The intervention allowed full access to all areas of the church, offering a renewed understanding and appreciation of one of the city’s oldest and most symbolic sacred spaces.
Commissioned by the Superintendency, my photographic work documented and interpreted the restoration process, exploring the dialogue between light and stone, memory and stratification. The Hypogeum Church — with its marble floor from Jerusalem and its suspended atmosphere — is portrayed as a living organism, where time is condensed into matter and space becomes pure experience.
“La chiesa ipogea di San Sepolcro, Umbilicus di Milano. Storia e restauro , edited by Antonella Ranaldi, published by Silvana Editoriale (Cinisello Balsamo / Milan, 2019).
