Simona Barbera, Ronny Faber Dahl

This cold heat folding in on myself

Welcome to the opening of Simona Barbera, Ronny Faber Dahl

This cold heat folding in on myself

Friday 4.11.
19-21

Open Saturdays and Sundays
13-15

4.11-20.11

Where a gleam reaches the ground, on a flickering surface, a strip of sand is extending.

Orange in magenta sky.

The rough clarity of lunar dust swept by sulfur. In the lushness of gold, these steel and concrete streets stir and disperse in its autonomous waves, signals and systems of matter in vast accumulations. Crystal cables tuning in on a distant hush, aside, as dispersed networks connecting, fading, renewing, recover and uncover, cooling down to a wavelength longer than fences, unshadowed by sunken copper. Residual sources turn back into endless islands of cooler fade well into the cold blue.

That feeling underneath the center looking in.

This cold heat folding in on myself.

The exhibition brings together works by Simona Barbera and Ronny Faber Dahl, consisting of a sound and video installation that blends colour and light shaders with sound frequencies, voiceovers, spectral harmonics, and a fabric print embedded in two metal structures.

From the tropical, self-contained gothic streets of Palermo to the scorching heat of dark sands and bioluminescent green-purple aquatic organisms, the exhibition develops from a generative visual shader that combines colour frequencies with graphic vectors immersed by spatial sound. Strings of visual code unfold in dense sonic textures, where personal tactile reflections on the city and its surroundings fluctuate between heat and cooling.

Recorded in part in Sicily, the work includes a spoken word by skater Gabriele Mule´ aka Paturnia, whom Simona and Ronny met in Alcamo during a residency at Posto Segreto in the summer of 2022.

Simona Barbera, Shell of gold, 2022

sound installation, metal sculptures

multichannel sound, Ambisonics recordings, amplifiers, subwoofer, mixing board, copper cables

Ronny Faber Dahl, Cold proxy, 2022

generative visual shader, endless loop, textile

Supported by NBK, NO

Speakers kindly provided by SEAS, Moss, NO

Special thanks to Posto Segreto, Landescape, Alcamo, IT

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Simona Barbera and Ronny Faber Dahl live and work in Norway and Italy. As duo collaboration they have shared several projects, including From dim to clear to curve at OPR, Milan; If I just laid down exhibited at the LYNX pavilion in Oslo in 2015, and Pavement, night, light at Edicola Radetzky in Milan in 2017. Since 2019 they have been working on a digital online platform called ISG, and the artist-run gallery Space4235.

Simona’s exhibitions include: MACA, Alcamo (IT) 2022; Posto Segreto, Alcamo (IT) 2022; Melk, Oslo (NO) 2022; Palazzo Franzone Spinola di Luccoli, Genoa (IT) 2022; Timeless Electropark, Genoa (IT) 2021; Lydgalleriet, Bergen (NO) 2021; CHAN, Genoa (IT) 2021; OPR, Milan (IT) 2019-2020; Monza Biennale, Monza (IT) 2019; Current Project, Milan (IT) 2018; Riss(e) Zentrum 2018, Varese (IT) 2018; Chocolate Factory Arts Foundation, Blenio Valley (CH) 2018; Assab One, Milan, (IT) 2017; Podium, Oslo (NO) 2016; Noplace, Oslo, (NO) 2016.

Ronny’s recent exhibitions include Leonardi - V idea, Genoa (IT) 2022; Rebecca Container Gallery, Genoa (IT) 2021; CHAN, Genoa (IT) 2021; OPR, Milan (IT) 2019-2020; LATO, Prato (IT) 2019; The Chocolate Factory, Blenio Valley (CH) 2018; Current Project, Milan (IT) 2018; Dust Space, Milan (IT) 2017; Nowhere Gallery, Milan (IT) 2016; Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Oslo (NO) 2017; Noplace Oslo, NO 2016; Surplace, Varese (IT) 2016; Sculpture Quadrennial 2016, Riga (LV) 2016.