On Tuesday 16 January 2024, AlbumArte, an independent artistic production centre, will inaugurate RITMO 22, a site-specific installation (Ravello 1972, lives and works in Milan) in its Rome headquarters. by fashion designer Paolo Di Landro one

The exhibition, curated by Alessio de' Navaques, will be open until 16 February 2024. A special project that speaks through the language of fashion, AlbumArte continues its process of experimentation on multimedia by proposing and presenting a unique path, designed for exhibition spaces.

Considered a reference name in Upcycling, with a punk poetics that embraces the concept of making mistakes and reshaping an existing garment to give it a new meaning, Di Landro has always worked at the intersection with the visual arts. From the partnership with Miltos Manetas, which makes him part of the Neen group, as the most interesting designer among contemporaries, to the exhibitions created for the Gloria Maria Gallery of Gloria Maria Cappelletti, pioneer of digital art, to the collaboration with Milovan Farronato for Fiorucci Art Trust in Stromboli, those with Martin Margiela or with director Emma Dante.

For this project, which traces the point of arrival in a journey of tireless experimental practice, Di Landro started from the circadian rhythm that marks the times of sleep and wakefulness, to reflect on the attempt at standardization of minds, needs, personalities and consciences, exercised by capitalist society and power. The dresses designed and created for RITMO 22 are of a single shape - among the simplest - that of the sheath dress. Apparently identical, they are actually different in what is the substance for a dress: the fabric seems to fully restore that strength that comes from itself, a recognizable characteristic of Di Landro's style. Other clothing

The representation of the garment, its reiteration, are thus part of the stylist's transformation process, to arrive at visual, material and social abstractions. its different weights, in an analysis which in the installation, used as screens or masks, contain words that transform them into present vectors of messages.