Kodrok invites us to enter this in-between zone: to step inside the glitch, where the boundaries between the real and the virtual blur, and where another architecture—one belonging to memory, play, and survival—comes into being.

(Ibrahim Nehme)

Valentina Bonomo Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the solo exhibition “Kodrok” by Rä di Martino on November 5, 2025, at the Portico d’Ottavia, from 3 PM to 9 PM.

The project stems from a research journey in Beirut and in the Palestinian and Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon, where Rä di Martino documented gaming rooms and everyday spaces—sites of gathering and resistance marked by precarity.

Through a process of digital transformation, these images are transfigured into unstable and distorted three-dimensional environments, suspended between concrete memory and imaginary reinvention. The exhibition is accompanied by a curatorial text by Ibrahim Nehme, director of the Beirut Art Center, where the artist recently concluded the exhibition Electric whispers.

Rä di Martino (Rome, 1975) has focused since her earliest works on the relationship between reality and fiction, drawing attention to the absurdity of their representation.

With a background in theatre and cinema, di Martino explores the mechanisms behind the construction of fiction in order to expose them and test their resistance to the unveiling of their deception. Through a multifaceted body of work encompassing photography and video, and supported by a rich literary and musical framework—composed of refined references and citations—the artist investigates the relationship between memory, private and mental dynamics of the contemporary individual, and the low culture disseminated by the media.