Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Perego's RAR Archive at Raffaella De Chirico in Turin

Raffaella De Chirico gallery in Turin presents a two-person exhibition by Federica Patera (Bergamo, 1982) and Andrea Sbra Perego (Bergamo, 1982) titled "RAR"—a reference to the file compression format. The project is an evolving archive of citations from heterogeneous texts, cataloged by keyword analogies, from which twelve new stories were created. The exhibition itself becomes an archive of RAR's various versions, including maps where citation-streets build narratives and three-dimensional installations that recreate the moment a citation leaves its source for a new context. Patera's solo work "Levenim לבנים" explores language and creative gesture, starting from the Genesis Tower of Babel passage in Hebrew and translating it into Greek, Latin, Italian, French, English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. She uses hand-stitched wool hardened with plaster and stucco to create a brick-like network that gradually loses rigidity while retaining material weight. The exhibition is curated by Giulia De Sanctis.