Remains — The Alchemy of Lost Memory
associazione barriera•Apr 29, 2026 — May 30, 2026
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Remains -The Alchemy of Lost Memory is an exhibition curated by Alberto Dapporto organised by Associazione Barriera and hosted by Sergey Kantsedal, on the occasion of the sixteenth edition of Mirror Project, supported by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
The show is a reflection on time as it wears away, on matter as it transforms, and on the fragile trace humanity leaves behind. The exhibition unfolds within a liminal space between ending and beginning, where emotional and material processes — whether real or symbolic — take on the form of an alchemical act, revealing both the precariousness of our world and its relentless capacity for regeneration.
It evokes the idea of lost time, of nature burning itself out, where thoughts and beliefs shift as if through alchemy: matter changes yet never frees itself from its own weight; memory transforms yet continues to press upon the present.
Remains explores contemporary instability not as a static condition, but as the impossibility of…
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Remains — The Alchemy of Lost Memory
associazione barriera•Apr 29, 2026 — May 30, 2026
Press Release
Remains -The Alchemy of Lost Memory is an exhibition curated by Alberto Dapporto organised by Associazione Barriera and hosted by Sergey Kantsedal, on the occasion of the sixteenth edition of Mirror Project, supported by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
The show is a reflection on time as it wears away, on matter as it transforms, and on the fragile trace humanity leaves behind. The exhibition unfolds within a liminal space between ending and beginning, where emotional and material processes — whether real or symbolic — take on the form of an alchemical act, revealing both the precariousness of our world and its relentless capacity for regeneration.
It evokes the idea of lost time, of nature burning itself out, where thoughts and beliefs shift as if through alchemy: matter changes yet never frees itself from its own weight; memory transforms yet continues to press upon the present.
Remains explores contemporary instability not as a static condition, but as the impossibility of…





















































