A Matter of Quality Rushing into My Sight After Black stems from the reworking of three previous audiovisual projects by Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Perego, presented between 2025 and 2026 in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Conceived in different contexts and formats — ranging from live video sets to site-specific video installations and interdisciplinary performances — the three works converge in a new archive of images, fragments and sequences, extracted from their original contexts.
Sampled, superimposed and transformed in real time, the visual materials enter into dialogue with the music of Piero Acuto. The result is an open narrative, in which rhythms and sonic variations influence the flow of images, which in turn shapes the listening experience.
For The Others, the work unfolds simultaneously in New York and Turin: the video is generated and manipulated live from the United States and broadcast alongside Piero Acuto’s music, whilst in Turin, images and sound converge within the exhibition space. The two elements come together during the performance, making geographical distance an integral part of the composition.
The process echoes that underpinning the duo’s foundational textile research project, in which literary fragments by different authors and from different eras are extracted from their original context and combined to generate new narratives. Here, the same conceptual framework is translated into a different language: the written word is replaced by the moving image, and the page by the duration of the performance.
The title A Matter of Quality Rushing into My Sight After Black also follows a similar process: the titles of the three previous works intertwine to form a new phrase, which becomes the framework from which the live set takes shape.
Piero Acuto is a musician, composer and designer from Turin. His work spans electronic music, graphic design and design. In the field of sound, including through the Peter Sharp project, he explores rhythms, sequences and electronic layering, often in dialogue with visual and performative projects. In the field of contemporary jewellery, he works under the name AQTO, transforming everyday objects and recycled materials into unique pieces.
Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Perego are an Italian artist duo based in Brooklyn, New York. Working together since 2017, they have been developing a body of work that interweaves textile and textual practices, installation, sound and time-based media, exploring language as a living, ever-changing system capable of forging connections between cultures, eras and forms of knowledge. At the same time, the duo is developing a body of work centred on video and live projection, using archive footage, real-time editing and site-specific interventions to translate into the audiovisual realm the processes of fragmentation, recomposition and translation that are already central to their artistic practice.
To mark Turin Art Week 2026, their textile- and text-based works are on display at the Weber & Weber Gallery in the solo exhibition How Slowly Can I Write?, from 27 October. Among the other works on show is a large-scale immersive textile installation with sound design.
