<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Dear friends & colleagues, <br>I hope you’re well.<br>
I’m delighted to invite anyone who will be in Rome this summer to my solo show at the Mattatoio Museum.
Feel free to reach out anytime.</span></p><p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Kindest regards,
Chiara</span></p>

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PASSA<span></span></span></b></p>

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Sculpting Narratives in Space<span></span></span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Curated by Paola Lagonigro and Laura Leuzzi<span></span></span></p>

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MATTATOIO, Rome – La Pelanda (Theatre 2)<br>
Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, Rome<span></span></span></p>

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Opening & Press Preview: 24 June, 6:30 PM<span></span></span></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PRESS RELEASE<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From 25 June to 2 August 2026, the monumental spaces
of Theatre 2 at Mattatoio in Rome host, for the first time in the city, <i>The
Abstract Films: Sculpting Narratives in Space</i> (2023–2025), a series of
immersive and interactive works by Chiara Passa.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The project consists of four films,<i>Yellow Film,
Black & White Film, Red Film,</i> and <i>Blue Film</i>.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The exhibition is promoted by the Department of
Culture of Roma Capitale, Azienda Speciale Palaexpo and Fondazione Mattatoio –
Città delle Arti and organized by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in collaboration
with Latitudo.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Exploring the boundary between the real and the
virtual, the quadrilogy invites viewers to become active participants. A
minimalist aesthetic, composed of solid geometries and electronic music,
combined with a mutable, non-linear structure. Each film involves a different
form of interaction, ranging from the manipulation of physical objects to
choices generated through AI. In every case, narrative continuity is disrupted
and reshaped, leading audiences through an experience that merges film,
sculpture, and play.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Conceived as fluid, digital, and multisensory
narrative environments, <i>The Abstract Films</i> establish a direct dialogue
with the raw and layered physicality of Rome’s former industrial complex.
Timeworn surfaces, metal structures, and irregular architectural volumes become
integral components of the work, generating a continuous tension between
material memory and algorithmic imagination.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The four LED walls, positioned on the floor and
equipped with directional audio systems, are embedded within the space as
digital membranes that reinterpret the site’s geometry. They follow,
contradict, reinvent, and amplify the original architectural lines,
transforming the environment into a hybrid organism. In this process, digital
architectures revisit the former Mattatoio not as a mere support structure but
as an active matrix: absorbing its productive history, reactivating its
structural tensions, and projecting new perceptual possibilities.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The encounter
between industrial archaeology and digital abstraction creates a field of
forces in which matter, light, and movement continuously rewrite one another. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Through
questions generated by artificial intelligence, appearing as interactive
buttons and objects, the audience is invited to activate a fluid, non-linear
narrative in which the memory of the site intertwines with the abstract
projection of new possible spaces.<span style="color:rgb(68,114,196)"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Mattatoio
itself becomes a computational membrane traversed by algorithmic images, sound
interactions, and constantly evolving abstract architectures.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(68,114,196)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Each of the four films presents a distinct mode of
audience interaction:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yellow
Film:</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> narrative remixing
through thirty interactive envelopes synchronized with a suspenseful electronic
soundtrack.<br>
<i>Black & White Film:</i> narrative manipulation through thirty sculptural
objects and sequences accompanied by minimalist techno rhythms.<br>
<i>Blue Film:</i> AI prompts and remixed sound effects guide a dynamic and
ever-changing experience.<br>
<i>Red Film: </i>AI prompts, sonic interactions, and chromatic shifts
continuously redirect the narrative flow.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Together, the works form an immersive and
participatory ecosystem in which architecture expands, reflects upon itself,
and dissolves into digital abstractions. Visitors become part of a new
emotional cartography where urban memory, industrial archaeology, and
algorithmic imagination coexist within the same space.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated
catalogue, to be presented in September, edited by Paola Lagonigro and Laura
Leuzzi, featuring texts by the curators and by artist and curator Darko Fritz,
a pioneer of Croatian digital art.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As part of the exhibition programme, two guided tours
led by the curators will take place: <b>14 July at 6:00 PM with Paola Lagonigro</b>
and <b>22 July at 6:00 PM with Laura Leuzzi</b>. Both events will offer
visitors an opportunity to explore the exhibition and the artist’s research in
greater depth.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Biography<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Chiara Passa</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is an Italian artist whose practice explores
immersive digital architectures and spatial transformation through augmented
reality, virtual reality, and interactive audiovisual environments. Active in
media art since the late 1990s, her research investigates the relationship
between physical and virtual space, developing perceptual ecosystems in which
algorithmic images, digital architectures, and interaction continuously
redefine the viewer’s experience. Her work has been exhibited internationally
in galleries, festivals, conferences, museums, and cultural institutions,
including: <i>RomaEuropa Festival</i>, Ex Mattatoio, Rome (2025); <i>META PAN</i>,
Palazzo Arte Napoli (2024); <i>Object (RE) Oriented Reality</i>, solo
exhibition, Panke Gallery, Berlin (2023); <i>Still Life</i>, solo exhibition,
Zabludowicz Collection, London (2021–2022); <i>MADATAC XI – Bienal Virtual de
Arte de los Nuevos Medios Digitales</i>, Madrid (2020); <i>Object Oriented
Space</i>, solo exhibition, MLAC Museum, Rome (2019); <i>Virtual Natives
Sculpture</i>, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich (2019); <i>Oslo Night Show</i>, HEK
Museum, Basel (2018); <i>InSonic Immersive Show</i>, ZKM | Center for Art and
Media, Karlsruhe (2017); <i>The Ways of Something</i>, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York (2016–2017); <i>From Live Architecture: Dimensioning</i>,
solo exhibition, Furtherfield, London (2016); <i>Off Biennale Cairo</i>
(2015–2016); <i>ISEA Disruption</i>, Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); <i>Morphos</i>,
Vortex Dome, Los Angeles (2014); <i>Media Art Histories IV – RENEW</i>, Riga
(2013); <i>FILE – Electronic Language International Festival</i>, São Paulo
(2011); <i>Electrofringe – Festival of New Media Art</i>, Newcastle, Australia
(2008); BizArt Center, Shanghai (2005); MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art,
Rome (2004); 11th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, <i>Cosmos
– A Sea of Art</i>, Athens (2003); XIV Quadriennale, Royal Palace, Naples
(2003); the 48th Venice Biennale (with the Oreste group), Venice (1999); and
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (1999).<span></span></span></p>

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<i>The Abstract Films: Sculpting Narratives in Space</i><br>
Curated by Paola Lagonigro and Laura Leuzzi<span></span></span></p>

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Mattatoio, Rome – La Pelanda (Theatre 2)<br>
Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4, Rome<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Piergiorgio Paris T. +39 347 8005911 </span><a href="mailto:p.paris@palaexpo.it" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">p.paris@palaexpo.it</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

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