"The 16th Quadriennale d’Arte coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the occupation of an Italian university in Trento, which triggered the student movement that culminated in the events of 1968. The 9th Quadriennale took place between 1965 and 1966. The exhibition bore traces of the intense and politicized climate of those years, which saw widespread critique of museum spaces and systems of exhibition selection. Rä di Martino worked on the iconographic archive of that edition, intervening in the historical memory of the institution and taking as her starting point a series of photographs of the vernissage that feature the visitors of the time. Working with a group of actors, the artist asked them to mingle with the public during the opening of the current edition, dressed exactly like the people depicted in the photographs of the 9th Quadriennale. She then documented the performance in a series of black and white photographs. Thus mixing living and dead languages, di Martino “performed” the history of the institution starting with its own representation, conducting a re-enactment developed on the borderline between reality and fiction, and synchronizing two temporalities in a single note. "(LUCA LO PINTO La 16 Quadriennale, catalogue 2016, NERO ED.)