Heaven+Earth​

created by John Sanborn and

Ionee Waterhouse​

sound design Andrea Ludovic
curated by Laura Barreca 

Museo Civico di Castelbuono, Sicily

May 24 – August 30, 2026
​

Heaven+Earth explores the human condition through the duality of matter and spirit, finiteness and transcendence, tangible reality and imagination—a syncretic reinterpretation that bridges the myth of the visionary and the irrational with Baroque symbolism and a post-human, neo-mythological imagination.

​

The work expresses the existential tension that defines the dual nature of humankind: the constant confrontation between mortal nature and the desire for eternity, between the aspiration toward a celestial condition and belonging to the earth.

​

Heaven+Earth was realized with the support of the PAC – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea 2025 promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

​

​