Becoming Mountain is a large pictorial installation by Pedro Vaz inspired by the mountain landscape of the Alta Via delle Orobie Bergamasche and developed after an experience of trekking in our mountains. The painting depicts a view of Presolana, conveyed through the gaze and direct experience of the Portuguese artist: an approach that fully reflects his practice, based on direct contact with remote places, explored within expeditions that stimulate an immersive bodily experience, from which Vaz's creative process takes shape, between figuration and abstraction.

The work interacts with the painting "View of Pizzo della Presolana" (1908) by Ermenegildo Agazzi exhibited at the museum entrance: a celebration of the imposing mountain of the Orobie Alps observed from a distant point of view, which conveys the monumentality of its eastern wall. The perspective adopted by Agazzi reflects the approach of the nineteenth-century pictorial tradition of landscapes, where nature is considered as an object of aesthetic contemplation, viewed from a distance and filtered through the human gaze. More than a century later, Pedro Vaz goes to the same mountain but with a very different attitude.

In August 2025, the artist embarks on a three-day journey covering about twenty kilometers, from Castione della Presolana to Colere, remaining side by side with the mineral wall, "so close that the horizon disappears". The mountain is present, powerful, and visceral, and next to it "the body ceases to be a spectator and becomes an integral part of the mountain."