Thursday 4 December, Bar Far will open its doors for the first time.
Bar Far is both an installation and a working bar created by Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page and is the inaugural project of Villa Lontana’s new space in Trastevere, renovated by Studio Strato.

Villa Lontana translates into English as Faraway Villa, and historically was named this way because of its distance from the city of Rome. We remain both a physical place and a metaphysical one: our headquarters in the north of Rome still remain, but after seven years we are now coming closer to the city...

Keith-Roach and Page use sculpture and painting to animate the architecture of this new interior, creating a hallucinatory gesamtkunstwerk in the vein of ancient and baroque Rome. Ruined bodies emerging out of the walls seem to be creating the very space they adorn, while trompe l’oeil wall paintings appear to push through the walls into an infinite vista beyond.This dreamlike space will be activated by a program of live performances on the night of the opening and throughout the duration of the exhibition.

On the 4th of December poet Florence Uniacke, artist and soprano Nyla van Ingen and musician Lukas De Clerck will animate the space. Uniacke’s work considers text, image and movement and their rhythmic|historical interstices, van Ingen’s research focuses on chance encounters and on creating sonic experiences that lie outside formal structures and De Clerck explores archeological research in music reinterpreting the historical double reed Greek instrument the aulos.

Live Program:
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Florence Uniacke (reading)
Nyla van Ingen (voice), Federico Gili (accordion)
Lukas De Clerck (aulos)

Drinks by Chinati Vergano e Amore Liquido
Mozzarella bites by Ruma Bottega & Cucina Agricola

Opening reception:
Thursday 4 December 2025
6pm till late

Christopher Page (b. 1984, London) is a painter of light, shadow and reflection. He makes  trompe l’oeil  paintings that confuse the boundaries between real and virtual space. Paintings of framed paintings with shadows cast across their surfaces call into question where the work begins and ends; mirrors that don't reflect us back confront us with our own absence; glowing skies distort architectural space. Page’s work has been exhibited internationally. His work was recently included in ‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2023), 'Present Tense,' Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK (2024) and 'The Desk', Blue Projects, London (2025). He has previously exhibited at Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Storefront, Los Angeles. Page is represented by Ben Hunter, London. He is a founding editor of Effects journal.

Clementine Keith-Roach (b. 1984, London) is a sculptor of new ruins. Drawing on historical typologies of sculpture, human gesture, and material cultures around birth and death, her work explores the tension between the archaeological and the contemporary. Her practice is centered around plaster casting. Body casts are merged with antique vessels and occasionally sculpted into architectural space, Keith-Roach then trompe-l’oeil paints these new assemblages creating continuous surfaces that blur the boundaries between body and object, skin and matter. Keith-Roach’s work has been exhibited internationally. Her work was recently included in ‘Holes’ at Clifford gallery Colgate University, Hamilton NY (2025)‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York NY (2023); ‘Milk,’ Wellcome Collection, London, UK (2023) and 'Slip Tease', Kasmin, New York (2023). She has previously exhibited at Centre Regional D’art Contemporain (CRAC), Sète, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Storefront, Los Angeles. Keith-Roach is represented by Ben Hunter, London and PPOW, New York. She is an editor of Effects journal.

Both Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page have exhibited their work at Villa Lontana in 2018 and 2021.

Florence Uniacke is a London-based poet and editor of the young press sun_sun, published by Earthbound Press, Crater Press, Ma Bibliotheque and Veer 2. The work considers text, image and movement and their rhythmic|historical interstices.

Nyla van Ingen is a Montréal-born soprano whose repertoire spans from Monteverdi to Debussy, Messiaen, Berg, Cage and contemporary composers, with a particular focus on opera and Lieder of the German Romantic tradition. She has performed internationally with leading conductors and theatres, and collaborates extensively with curators and visual artists. Her research focuses on chance encounters and on creating situations of sonic experience that lie outside more formal structures.

Lukas De Clerck is a Brussels-based musician and researcher who explores a niche of archaeological research in music. His artistic practice is currently centered around the Aulos, the ancient double-reed Greek–Roman instrument. De Clerck’s approach is driven by playful curiosity and a strong interest in processes of transformation. With his contemporary approach to drone, post-minimalist music, and contemporary folk, he presents a distinctive body of songs, timbral exercises, and compositions. De Clerck has performed at various festivals around Europe, such as Rewire 2025 (NL), Sonic Acts (NL), BRDCST (BE), Meakusma (BE), Sonic Protest (FR), Archipel Festival (CH), and UH Fest (HU).

Thursday 4 December, Bar Far will open its doors for the first time. Bar Far is both an installation and a working bar created by Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page and is the inaugural project of Villa Lontana’s new space in Trastevere, renovated by Studio Strato.

Villa Lontana translates into English as Faraway Villa, and historically was named this way because of its distance from the city of Rome. We remain both a physical place and a metaphysical one: our headquarters in the north of Rome still remain, but after seven years we are now coming closer to the city...

Keith-Roach and Page use sculpture and painting to animate the architecture of this new interior, creating a hallucinatory gesamtkunstwerk in the vein of ancient and baroque Rome. Ruined bodies emerging out of the walls seem to be creating the very space they adorn, while trompe l’oeil wall paintings appear to push through the walls into an infinite vista beyond.This dreamlike space will be activated by a program of live performances on the night of the opening and throughout the duration of the exhibition.

On the 4th of December poet Florence Uniacke, artist and soprano Nyla van Ingen and musician Lukas De Clerck will animate the space. Uniacke’s work considers text, image and movement and their rhythmic|historical interstices, van Ingen’s research focuses on chance encounters and on creating sonic experiences that lie outside formal structures and De Clerck explores archeological research in music reinterpreting the historical double reed Greek instrument the aulos.

Live Program:
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Florence Uniacke (reading)
Nyla van Ingen (voice), Federico Gili (accordion)
Lukas De Clerck (aulos)

Drinks by Chinati Vergano e Amore Liquido
Mozzarella bites by Ruma Bottega & Cucina Agricola

Opening reception:
Thursday 4 December 2025
6pm till late

Christopher Page (b. 1984, London) is a painter of light, shadow and reflection. He makes  trompe l’oeil  paintings that confuse the boundaries between real and virtual space. Paintings of framed paintings with shadows cast across their surfaces call into question where the work begins and ends; mirrors that don't reflect us back confront us with our own absence; glowing skies distort architectural space. Page’s work has been exhibited internationally. His work was recently included in ‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2023), 'Present Tense,' Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK (2024) and 'The Desk', Blue Projects, London (2025). He has previously exhibited at Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Storefront, Los Angeles. Page is represented by Ben Hunter, London. He is a founding editor of Effects journal.

Clementine Keith-Roach (b. 1984, London) is a sculptor of new ruins. Drawing on historical typologies of sculpture, human gesture, and material cultures around birth and death, her work explores the tension between the archaeological and the contemporary. Her practice is centered around plaster casting. Body casts are merged with antique vessels and occasionally sculpted into architectural space, Keith-Roach then trompe-l’oeil paints these new assemblages creating continuous surfaces that blur the boundaries between body and object, skin and matter. Keith-Roach’s work has been exhibited internationally. Her work was recently included in ‘Holes’ at Clifford gallery Colgate University, Hamilton NY (2025)‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York NY (2023); ‘Milk,’ Wellcome Collection, London, UK (2023) and 'Slip Tease', Kasmin, New York (2023). She has previously exhibited at Centre Regional D’art Contemporain (CRAC), Sète, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Storefront, Los Angeles. Keith-Roach is represented by Ben Hunter, London and PPOW, New York. She is an editor of Effects journal.

Both Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page have exhibited their work at Villa Lontana in 2018 and 2021.

Florence Uniacke is a London-based poet and editor of the young press sun_sun, published by Earthbound Press, Crater Press, Ma Bibliotheque and Veer 2. The work considers text, image and movement and their rhythmic|historical interstices.

Nyla van Ingen is a Montréal-born soprano whose repertoire spans from Monteverdi to Debussy, Messiaen, Berg, Cage and contemporary composers, with a particular focus on opera and Lieder of the German Romantic tradition. She has performed internationally with leading conductors and theatres, and collaborates extensively with curators and visual artists. Her research focuses on chance encounters and on creating situations of sonic experience that lie outside more formal structures.

Lukas De Clerck is a Brussels-based musician and researcher who explores a niche of archaeological research in music. His artistic practice is currently centered around the Aulos, the ancient double-reed Greek–Roman instrument. De Clerck’s approach is driven by playful curiosity and a strong interest in processes of transformation. With his contemporary approach to drone, post-minimalist music, and contemporary folk, he presents a distinctive body of songs, timbral exercises, and compositions. De Clerck has performed at various festivals around Europe, such as Rewire 2025 (NL), Sonic Acts (NL), BRDCST (BE), Meakusma (BE), Sonic Protest (FR), Archipel Festival (CH), and UH Fest (HU).