What is an archive if not a collection of voices waiting to be heard again?

Thus, an exhibition is born from the desire for reactivation: the works, preserved in the Fondazione Oelle Mediterraneo Antico archive, are once again on display. Fragments that enter into dialogue, cross languages, contrasts, affinities, and together construct a new narrative.

Among the spaces of our "anomalous" fOn Art Gallery, Francesco Balsamo and Fabrice Bernasconi Borzì occupy a common ground—that of painting—but in radically different ways. Balsamo works with drawing, as a fragile and poetic form of writing. Fabrice, on the other hand, brings to the exhibition a declaration of rejection of painting itself: an ironic and irreverent gesture that transforms ignorance into language. Both coexist with Alfio Bonanno, who restores painting's profound connection with nature, transforming matter into a trace of the territory it inhabits and traverses.

Another form of dialogue takes shape in the foreground between Marco Nereo Rotelli and Ryan Mendoza, united by a strongly pop language, each following their own distinctive trajectories. Rotelli works on the sign as a visual and conceptual element, disentangling sign and matter: text becomes image, icon, presence. Mendoza, on the other hand, draws on American pop imagery: powerful, ironic, and sometimes disturbing paintings and photographs, set in unconventional contexts that transform the ordinary into a stage, and art into provocation.

The exhibition closes with Urs Luthi, who engages not with others but with himself. His exploration of identity, representation, and the construction of the image permeates his body and his history: the artist is subject and object, author and icon, in a continuous play of mirrors that questions the boundary between reality and representation. This is not a simple collection of works, nor a celebratory exhibition; it is an exercise in listening and connecting. The works observe, respond, and contradict one another, but they never cease to speak of the vitality of the archive as a living, open, and necessary space. It's a way to bring out the complexity of the contemporary world, starting precisely from the archive, which is never closed, never definitive. Like nothing else, after all.