Luiz André Gama: SALASSO Projects Code Onto the Stones of a Mountain Village
Luiz André Gama spent 5 months projecting generative code onto the walls of Castel di Croce, a village high in the Monti Sibillini. SALASSO turns those nights into 5 works on Tezos, part of a project to bring the village back to life.
Castel di Croce sits high in the Monti Sibillini, in the Marche region of central Italy. Over the centuries it has been a military lookout, a feudal domain, a castle, a garrison and an autonomous village. Today it is a small fraction of the nearby town of Rotella, and it is losing its people. SALASSO, the new series by Luiz André Gama, was made on its walls.
Over 5 months in 2025 and 2026, Gama chose locations around the village and worked through long, quiet nights, projecting classic generative art onto its stones. Each piece is programmed in TouchDesigner and mixes pixels with the historic texture of the walls: lines spill over masonry, fill a doorway, run down a fountain. He calls the result a generative ballet, one that loosens the sense of the rocks being fixed in time. The title, Salasso, is the Italian word for bloodletting.
The series has 5 works, each about 20 seconds long: Within the City Walls, Locked from the Outside, The Second Arch and Tower as 1/1s, and Wine Fountain as an edition of 5. They were minted in the artist's own Salasso contract on Tezos and released on objkt on November 10, 2026.
SALASSO is also part of something larger than the screen. Gama describes it as one piece of a wider project that aims to revitalize Castel di Croce and reverse its depopulation through culture and art. The projections lasted only as long as the nights that held them. The works keep the village's walls in motion after the light is gone.
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