On the occasion of Artissima 2026, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents ...Pop.!Crash/(LOON), a solo exhibition by Louis Morlæ, winner of the illy Present Future 2025 Prize, the twenty-sixth edition of the initiative promoted by illycaffè and Artissima. ...Pop.!Crash/(LOON) is Morlæ's first solo exhibition in Italy and continues his research combining advanced technologies, product design and storytelling. For the occasion, a new installation conceived for the Foundation's spaces will be presented, reflecting on the acceleration towards a future guided by technology and on the desire for reassurance about what awaits us.
In his practice, Louis Morlæ (1992, Melbourne, Australia) combines sculpture, industrial product design, video and music to investigate the link between future and present, through an imagery with science-fiction features that, however, is already rooted in the most advanced technologies available today. His sculptures, designed with CAD software and 3D printed using PLA plastic, aluminum, steel, SLA resin or industrial fabrics, take the form of humanoids, autonomous vehicles or imaginary safety devices.