*Unexpected Matches*, curated by Alina Marazzi, is a format born from the intersection of moving images, sound, and music. Musicians and DJs are invited to create live soundtracks—specifically for Triennale—for rare and little-known films, archival materials, and works from film archives, offering new perspectives on listening and interpretation.

For this event, visual artist Federica Foglia weaves together fragments of Elvira Notari’s work with "orphan films," home movies, and images from her own filmography, creating a cinematic collage that spans times, places, and memories. In dialogue with these images, musician Silvia Cignoli performs a live score for electric guitar, electronics, and voice that evokes and transforms the emotional universe of Notari’s cinema. Bridging historical memory and critical imagination, the performance restores a tangible, contemporary presence to the Neapolitan filmmaker, questioning the relationship between the archive, loss, and the survival of images over time.

Silvia Cignoli—a classical and electric guitarist and versatile musician—works across genres ranging from classical to contemporary music, from radical improvisation to avant-rock, and creates original music that bridges her academic classical background with electronic music. She works on various site-specific and cross-media projects and is deeply involved in music for the moving image, including composing film scores.

Federica Foglia works at the intersection of experimental cinema, tactile film practices, archives, and materialist cinema. Her work explores migration, identity, women of the diaspora, and queer ecologies through a visual language rooted in image fragmentation.
Her works have been presented in numerous international contexts, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Images Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Oberhausen, Macau Art Garden, Crossroads San Francisco, Friche la Belle de Mai, and the Pesaro International Film Festival.