zeroazero

2005, video

Zeroazero takes footage from the 1982 World Cup final and removes the ball. The players run, tackle, celebrate – but there is nothing to play with. Without the ball, every gesture becomes absurd: tactics turn into choreography, the crowd cheers for nothing. The work looks at football as a national ritual – especially in Italy – and asks what remains when you take away the one thing that gives it meaning.