We are taking you on a journey to the Swiss village of Cotterd, where painter Francisco Sierra has made his studio inside a former school classroom. Surrounded by peaceful landscapes and rolling hills overlooking Lake Murten, Sierra creates photorealistic paintings that exist somewhere between the familiar and the fantastical. At a time when Artificial Intelligence is redefining the possibilities of image-making, Sierra’s meticulously crafted photorealistic paintings raise new questions about perception, reality and the nature of the image.

In this studio visit, Sierra invites us into his process: from the first drawing to the transformation of an image from two dimensions into three, and back again. He reflects on how a subject comes to life through painting, and why leaving its meaning open can be just as important as the act of creating it.

Discover the details of our visit and hear Francisco Sierra speak about his practice, his surroundings and the questions that lie behind his paintings in the video below.