Botto&Bruno's 'White Noise' at Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin

The duo Botto&Bruno—Gianfranco Botto (Turin, 1963) and Roberta Bruno (Turin, 1966)—present their exhibition 'White noise' at Galleria Alberto Peola in Turin. The show intertwines literature and art history, with the title referencing Don DeLillo's novel. The apocalyptic suburban landscape evokes M.P. Shiel's 'The Purple Cloud', while the drawing room becomes a salvific realization of Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' and a transposition of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time'. The space is described as 'A Room of One's Own' that viewers must reorganize through crumpled papers, hidden details, expansions and contractions, contemporary graphic accumulations, and ancient pictorial signs mimicking phonetic ones. The guiding principle is slowness and selection of fragments that reconstruct a personal story from the fantastic to the real, shifting from reading to contemplation.