Exhibition: from 12 to 19 june 2026

Opening: friday 12 june at 6pm

Venue: Porte Rosse, Via dei Sabelli 8, Rome
Visits: by appointment via info.porterosse@gmail.com 

Entrance: free

We have decided to call this exhibition Memento Muri, an intentional variation on memento mori, the Latin expression meaning “remember that you must die,” historically used as a reminder of the transience of life. More than a meditation on death, it is an invitation to confront finitude as a necessary condition for fully inhabiting the present. Replacing “mori” with “muri” (“walls”) shifts the reflection toward something concrete and tangible: matter, architecture and the traces left behind.

As architects and designers, we work within the assumption that what is built is meant to endure. Architecture may be the most ambitious expression of this impulse: an attempt to fix in time what is, by nature, subject to change. Yet even the most monumental structures, when observed closely, reveal their fragility — fragments suspended within the continuous flow of time.

From this tension emerges the central gesture of our practice: taking familiar architectural forms, internalised through years of study and professional experience and subjecting them to transformation. Folding, crumpling, distorting them. Reducing them to their condition as vulnerable matter. The resulting works resemble artefacts from an indeterminate era, suspended between what once existed and what remains.

Memento Muri is also a reflection on ourselves. To bend, dismantle, and observe from a distance becomes a way of confronting our own evolution — as a collective, as professionals and as individuals. We find ourselves at a moment in life when time is no longer an abstract notion, but a physical and perceptible experience. Each moment acquires meaning precisely because it is finite; and in its impossibility of being held onto, reveals the urgency of being fully lived.