The works of Anita Di Bianco make clear that narration is a precise artistic process still occupying a place as an artistic strategy; she draws her material for re-writing, re-staging or re-telling from literature in order to transform its already familiar content in the medium of film.

In her exhibition “Versteller” (Masquerader) Anita Di Bianco projects two films. “Du Rêve et des Drogues/Dreaming and Drugs” shows excerpts from an interview with the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar held in 1980 in the form of a cinematic scenario. Yourcenar is embodied by a young male actor, who subjectively interprets the links between history and imagination, and self-reassurance and fictional invention. By contrast, “Ballad in Plain D” transposes Campo Santo – a collection of prose and essays by the writer W.G. Sebald, who died in 2001 – into the surreal setting of the “Cité Administrative” in Brussels.

The title also expresses Di Bianco’s method of respecting the authorship of others while interpreting content, ideas and stories in a new way; the word “Versteller”, which comes from the Yiddish, was used to refer to those “interpreters” who – in the age of silent film – recounted to the audience what the film protagonists said, though and felt, acting as mediators between author, actors and the audience.

June 25 2007, 20h artist talk with Anita Di Bianco at uqbar-Projektraum Berlin-Wedding. (www.uqbar-ev.de)