‘XIV: Tablets’ by Sabotage Practice at RTA HQ.

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10.7.25-24.7.25

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Sabotage Practice is an architecture and landscape office based in Milan. The studio is currently working on international competitions, academic research, teaching, and collaborative design. It was founded in 2024 by Valentina Noce, who is currently completing a PhD at Politecnico Di Milano.
 

'In his 1925 "A Note upon the 'Mystic Writing-Pad” Freud uses the children’s writing toy as a device to describe memory. The writing pad consists of a wax surface covered by a thin sheet that can be written on and then wiped clean. Freud uses this to explain how the mind can receive new impressions (writing on the surface) while still retaining traces of past experiences (the marks left in the wax beneath). In a reverse and incoherent operation - a dysfunctional memory -  ‘Tablets’ records the walls of RTA HQ. Bringing a blank gummy surface in a Ryanair cabin bag (40x20x25cm MXP - STN) we have just a day to collect traces of the gallery space. This survey of the walls cracks, lesions, bumps, stains, distresses, marks, is reported on the latex layer through a frottage technique. The surface - working as a pad - displays the gallery’s unknown evidences, rendering them explicit and ambiguous.'