Federico Sargentone

An Interview with BB’s Fabrizio Ballabio and Alessandro Bava by Federico Sargentone Fabrizio Ballabio and Alessandro Bava founded BB because they felt too “freed from design,” in particular architectural practice, which they thought they’d left behind. After graduating from London’s Architectural Association (AA), and experimenting with ideas on domesticity in a fine-art context under the collective alias åyr, they came back together to found their Milan-based studio in 2022.

Milan Peres Projects Milan Piazza Belgioioso 2 June 30–August 5, 2022 Anyone who has ever put a magazine issue to bed knows that the process is one of unexpected contingencies, high-speed troubleshooting, and panic-soothing deep-breathing exercises. With the group exhibition “September Issues,” curator Mohamed Almusibli charges eight artists to play with the different connotations of the word issue.

The sixteen works on view in Talia Chetrit’s sixth solo exhibition at this gallery span twenty-seven years of the artist’s work, going back to early black-and-white silver gelatin prints taken during the 1990s such as the staged composition Murder Picture #6, 1997/2021, or the youthful and enigmatic Raver and Hippie, 1998/2021, both portraits the artist made as a teenager, and which Chetrit has repurposed and recontextualized for this occasion.