Friday June 26th
6:00 - 8:30
Please join Gabriel Moreno in conversation with Alex Chitty and B. Ingrid Olson at Latitude for a film screening of “Girl with the Black Balloons” and discussion exploring the work and life of Bettina Grossman.
In April 2026, Latitude was invited to bring a group of artists to the Ruth Foundation for the Arts for the closing of “Original Order, Order Original,” an exhibition of Bettina’s work across photography, film, sculpture, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, textile, text, and commercial design.
Playing with the archival principle “respect des fonds,” The Ruth Foundation and Rivers Institute for the Arts curated Bettina’s work as a dialogue between the original order of the work’s context and its shadow. The original order and its inversions were synthesized into an exhibition that was arranged and rearranged over the course of its run. Like a river, it is never to be met the same way twice.
All are invited to gather and reflect in a roundtable format on how they met the exhibition . Piecing different vantages of this show together, we hope to explore Bettina’s work and how preservation and re-contextualization feed each other. A 60 minute film about Bettina, “Girl with the Black Balloons” will be screened as a shared entry into her work , from which our roundtable conversation will commence.
Friday June 26th
6:00 - 8:30
Please join Gabriel Moreno in conversation with Alex Chitty and B. Ingrid Olson at Latitude for a film screening of “Girl with the Black Balloons” and discussion exploring the work and life of Bettina Grossman.
In April 2026, Latitude was invited to bring a group of artists to the Ruth Foundation for the Arts for the closing of “Original Order, Order Original,” an exhibition of Bettina’s work across photography, film, sculpture, painting, printmaking, bookmaking, textile, text, and commercial design.
Playing with the archival principle “respect des fonds,” The Ruth Foundation and Rivers Institute for the Arts curated Bettina’s work as a dialogue between the original order of the work’s context and its shadow. The original order and its inversions were synthesized into an exhibition that was arranged and rearranged over the course of its run. Like a river, it is never to be met the same way twice.
All are invited to gather and reflect in a roundtable format on how they met the exhibition . Piecing different vantages of this show together, we hope to explore Bettina’s work and how preservation and re-contextualization feed each other. A 60 minute film about Bettina, “Girl with the Black Balloons” will be screened as a shared entry into her work , from which our roundtable conversation will commence.
