Join us for a talk from Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi from the Fondazione In Between Art Film, where they serve as artistic director and curator, respectively. During this event, Rabottini and Bigazzi will share their experiences organising the “Trilogy of Uncertainties,” three exhibitions held in conjunction with the Venice Biennale since 2022.
Each exhibition within this trilogy is named after an atmospheric phenomenon, and sets out to explore states of vision as metaphors for the human condition. The project began in 2022 with Penumbra, continued in 2024 with Nebula, and will conclude in 2026 with Canicula. All moving image works featured in each iteration of the exhibition series were commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film. Canicula will premiere eight new site-specific video installations commissioned from Lawrence Abu Hamdan (1985, Jordan), Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti (1974, Italy/1972, Italy), Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk (1992, Ukraine/1993, Ukraine), Janis Rafa (1984, Greece), P. Staff (1987, United Kingdom), Wang Tuo (1984, China), Yuyan Wang (1989, China), and Maya Watanabe (1983, Peru).
Occupying the Complesso Dell’Ospedaletto, a former hospital and orphanage in Venice, these exhibitions have transformed the building’s interior, rendering it as a form of live cinematic architecture. To reflect on the challenges of exhibiting moving image works outside of the black box, Rabottini and Bigazzi’s presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Courtauld lecturers Johanna Gosse and Sofia Gotti. During the conversation and Q&A we will consider the practical challenges and affordances of heritage sites for film, while paying close attention to the ways in which architecture informs and alters the borders of the screen.
Organised by Dr Sofia Gotti, Lecturer in Curating, the Courtauld Institute.
Speakers:
Leonardo Bigazzi is a curator and artist’s film producer based in Florence. He is curator at Fondazione In Between Art Film. He is also the curator of Lo schermo dell’arte, Florence; the founder and curator of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images; and the founder and co-director of Feature Expanded (2015–18). He has commissioned and/or produced over fifty artist’s films, including Machine Boys by Karimah Ashadu, which was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist at the Venice Biennale in 2024. Bigazzi has edited and contributed to several publications and recently edited the book VISIO – Moving Images in Europe since the 2010s.
Alessandro Rabottini is an art writer and curator, and the artistic director of Fondazione In Between Art Film. He curated exhibitions for various international institutions, including solo shows of Ali Cherri, Latifa Echakhch, John Latham, David Maljkovic, Victor Man, Pratchaya Phintong, Walid Raad, and Danh Vo. Rabottini has contributed to museum catalogues on the practices of Rosa Barba, Cecily Brown, Formafantasma, Thao Nguyen Phan, Dana Schutz, Piotr Uklanski, and Paloma Varga Weisz, among others, and edited monographs on the work of Michael Anastassiades, Gianfranco Baruchello, Andrea Branzi, Oscar Murillo, Robert Overby, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Sterling Ruby, and Ettore Spalletti.
