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Zero Latitude
by Bianca Baldi
2014, 9”
Presented at Lo schermo dell’arte 2021 in occasion of the exhibition Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s
The film is part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – 6th edition
Courtesy of the artist
Growing out of an archival research project initiated in 2012, Zero Latitude installation relates on a pivotal moment in late-nineteenth European and African history by minutely focussing on a particular historical artefact: a custom-made portable explorer’s bed produced by Louis Vuitton, founder of the Parisian luggage goods brand. Orchestrated as a walk-through installation, Zero Latitude’s variously showcases this luxury commodity – equal parts relic, sculptural object, historical cipher and perfomative prop – as a way of addressing a period of colonial adventurism that both prefigured and decisively contributed to the irreversible outcomes of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85.
Bianca Baldi takes up historical plots to reveal complex webs of political, economic and cultural influences incorporating photography, film, writing, publishing and installation. She studied Fine Arts in Cape Town (Michaelis School of Fine Art), Venice (IUAV) and Frankfurt am Main (Staedelschule) and was a participant at the Jan Van Eyck Academie (2015/2016). She has participated in numerous large international exhibitions such as the 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, 8th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014), the 19th Contemporary Art Festival SESC Videobrasil, Sao Paulo (2015) and group exhibitions at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp (2016), Kunstverein Braunschweig and Kunstverein Frankfurt (2015).