On the occasion of the sixteenth edition of Mirror Project, an exhibition programme organised by Associazione Barriera in collaboration with CAMPO, the curatorial studies and practices course run by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, supported by Fondazione CRT and funded by scholarships from Amici del Madre in Naples.

Nicola Ghirardelli, Edoardo Caimi, and Bri Williams engage in dialogue with each other in an exhibition that reflects on the passing of time, the transformation of matter, and the fragile traces that humanity leaves behind. Remains explores the instability of the present as an open process, where thoughts and beliefs are transformed as if by alchemy: matter changes but does not shed its weight, memory is transformed but continues to exert pressure on the present.

Inspired by the thought of Derek Jarman — «I am a gardener, a maker of ruins» — the exhibition invites to consider decay as a form of resistance and possibility. It situates itself within a liminal space between ending and beginning, where emotional and material processes — whether real or symbolic — take the form of an alchemical act, capable of revealing both the precariousness of our world and its relentless capacity for regeneration. Between nature, social systems, and intimacy, the exhibition investigates non-sequential time, collapse, and the possibility of regeneration, generating a reflection on what remains and continues to weigh heavily, even when everything around us seems to be changing.