Città Dolente is a series of VR installations of five chapters of 20' length. The structure of the work is inspired by Dante’s Inferno, but explores the cosmogonies and imagery of hell as perceived by underrepresented communities, with a specific focus on each of the five continents. The Mirror is the first of these, co-produced with Ojo Raro, and explores the Mazatec community in Latin America.

Città Dolente - The Mirror is a journey through hell in which the user, wearing the Oculus, physically walks in a circle with a diameter of approximately 7–10 metres (a Dantean circle). Upon completing each circuit, the user will experience a descent leading to the next, even deeper level, finding themselves in a veritable infernal spiral. Along the way, they will encounter people from the community in question, with whom they will find themselves interacting and from whom the problems to be resolved will arise, as a consequence of the choices made within this social context. The aim is to highlight the social paradoxes generated by the new world, raising doubts about both the Western and non-Western perspectives. The immersive nature of the project makes the user lose the real sense of space as descending down the spiral: the wider the circumference, the less spatial awareness they have (several tests have already been conducted to recreate the sensation of disorientation and descent into the infernal spiral).