A curation by Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager at Galerie Lo Scalo - The 'Robot' theme is a powerful artistic wellspring, embodying the complex relationship between humanity and technology. It often explores fears of automation and loss of identity, questions of artificial consciousness, and a sense of the "uncanny valley." Symbolically, robots are associated with our desire for perfection, immortality, and control, but also represent the threat of a sterile, mechanized future. Since 1950, artists have moved from building kinetic machines to creating full-fledged robotic art. Pioneers include Jean Tinguely with his Métamatics (1950s) and Nam June Paik, whose interactive, anthropomorphic sculptures like Robot K-456 (1964) introduced social commentary and humor. More recently, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu's industrial robot installation, Can't Help Myself (2016), offers a Sisyphean, absurd commentary on control. In photography, a world-famous artist whose work is relevant to the theme is the Belgian photographer Wanda Tuerlinckx. Her ongoing series, Androids, is intensely focused on capturing portraits of advanced humanoid robots using a 19th-century wooden camera and the slow Calotype process.