Fabio Quaranta

LRC is in residence at 47 Canal with Urania: Soccer Edition, a solo installation by Italian designer Fabio Quaranta.

Urania is Quaranta’s long-term project: a living archive, a re-imagination of garments long detached from utility, now charged with presence. Each piece is identified only by a Roman numeral and stitched with a hand-sewn U—a minimalist mark of belonging, a whispered brand.

This edition draws from a trove of Italian 1970s–80s soccer team uniforms, relics of local pride and material memory. Restaged as uniforms without a game, they are at once absurd and precise, suspended between sportswear and sculpture. Installed on the gallery floor, lying on tote bags designed by Fabio Quaranta Studio, the garments form a speculative team: placeless, playerless, improbably unified.

Each uniform is subtly imbued with a custom fragrance—an olfactory extension of the project. Developed with a professional nose and based on a handkerchief Quaranta had kept folded in a drawer, the scent has been applied to each garment. It’s a quiet act of reanimation, breathing personal memory into the collection. A gesture both intimate and conceptual, it links body and object, designer and archive, through scent—an invisible mark of presence.

LRC’s collaboration with Quaranta began in 2016 with his main line, Fabio Quaranta. Over the years, this partnership has unfolded across multiple chapters: White Label was first presented as a solo installation at LRCHQEV, while Rusty Label has appeared throughout LRC’s biannual salon series. At 47 Canal, the conversation continues in a distilled, focused register—an immersive encounter with Quaranta’s singular vision.

Quaranta’s evolving archive is a breathing project—mutating, renewing. Soccer Edition is a collection as still-life. A suspended match on a ruleless field. A study in presence, memory, and the afterlife of form.