TULPA. SALVATION PROTOCOL
Fondazione Spazio Vitale•Jan 24, 2026 — Feb 21, 2026
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TULPA. SALVATION PROTOCOL, curated by Anastasia Pestinova and presented at Fondazione Spazio Vitale from January 24 to February 21, 2026, brings together works by Irene Mathilda Alaimo (2000), Luca Campestri (1999), Giacomo Erba (2001), Gabriele Longega (1986), and Beatrice Mika Sakaki (1999) within an exhibition project dedicated to the medium as a techno-religious apparatus intertwined with surveillance and contemporary belief systems.
In this project, the concept of the tulpa is adopted as a symbol of mediality itself, since the paranormal meaning commonly circulated today is a recent and not entirely accurate reinterpretation of its original Tibetan meanings. Once appropriated by the Theosophists, these meanings acquired new nuances that were subsequently reabsorbed and transformed by television, internet creepypasta culture, and other media. In its most contemporary reading, the tulpa is a thought-form that grows in proportion to the time a…
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TULPA. SALVATION PROTOCOL
Fondazione Spazio Vitale•Jan 24, 2026 — Feb 21, 2026
Press Release
TULPA. SALVATION PROTOCOL, curated by Anastasia Pestinova and presented at Fondazione Spazio Vitale from January 24 to February 21, 2026, brings together works by Irene Mathilda Alaimo (2000), Luca Campestri (1999), Giacomo Erba (2001), Gabriele Longega (1986), and Beatrice Mika Sakaki (1999) within an exhibition project dedicated to the medium as a techno-religious apparatus intertwined with surveillance and contemporary belief systems.
In this project, the concept of the tulpa is adopted as a symbol of mediality itself, since the paranormal meaning commonly circulated today is a recent and not entirely accurate reinterpretation of its original Tibetan meanings. Once appropriated by the Theosophists, these meanings acquired new nuances that were subsequently reabsorbed and transformed by television, internet creepypasta culture, and other media. In its most contemporary reading, the tulpa is a thought-form that grows in proportion to the time a…
