Artists Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page have collaborated to design the cavernous Bar Far installation in Rome's Trastevere neighbourhood.

Bar Far is an installation curated by Vittoria Bonifati and commissioned by Villa Lontana, a non-profit art space that investigates links between ancient and contemporary creative practices.

Villa Lontana's exhibition space in Trastevere was renovated by architecture practice Studio Strato to create the temporary, site-specific bar, characterised by immersive catacomb-like corridors with plaster-clad arches.

British sculptor Keith-Roach and British painter Page looked to "ancient and baroque Rome" when decorating the interior with Keith-Roach's peculiar plaster reliefs shaped like body parts, which offer an uncanny take on traditional sculptures.

"The effect is an environment that is at once church and tomb, prophecy and ruin, heaven and hell," said Bonifati.

A glowing neon sign features on the facade, which leads to a cavernous hallway defined by various plaster legs, arms and hands, including two palms clasping ecclesiastical-style candles.

Lifelike sculptures of lower bodies with legs were used to support small tabletops, which were fixed to the wall close to the minimalist plaster bar itself.

On the wall opposite the bar, Keith-Roach and Page collaborated to create a circular portal from plaster and wood, which features an abstract, sunset-style painting in the middle, surrounded by interlaced plaster arms covered in chains and a single breast.

The artists used a mixture of other materials throughout the venue, including cement binder, stucco, silicon glue and scrim, to bring the interior to life.

The back room of Bar Far features a floor-to-ceiling trompe l'oeil mural by Page. Tall archways were painted with the same reddish orange hues as the portal and designed to look as if they lead to another dimension.

"Page's perspectival wall-painting is believably deep from some angles, but warps and distorts as we move around the space," said Bonifati

"It turns the final room into an illusory colonnade or cloister, though one that surveys not a heavenly landscape but an ominous infinity that draws us in with an ambiguous, otherworldly glow," she added.

Bar Far will be open until 14 March.

Located on the west bank of the River Tiber, which runs through Rome, the city's Trastevere neighbourhood is known for its creative community. Local practice StudioTamat previously updated a small 19th-century house in the area with glass floors and mirrored ceilings.

Studio Strato was founded in 2007. Among its portfolio of projects is Pointing House, a one-bedroom apartment renovated to include a cosy reading den.

The photography is by Jasper Fry.