BIOGRAPHY

LABOTIV was founded in 2016 from the artistic encounter between Claire Clelia Baldo and Piero Viti. Together, they create a four-handed body of work exploring memory, identity, the gaze, and the invisible thresholds that shape our inner lives. Their practice weaves photography, writing, performance, installation, and visual fragmentation, with a particular affinity for the diptych, used as a personal syntax between two visions.

Their projects unfold over time, grounded in attentive processes involving presence, relationship, and transformation. FATICA and DIPTYCH are among their most significant series, developed through journeys between Paris, Rome, and Venice, and shaped by a poetic reflection on the shifting nature of human figures.

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About the LABOTIV duo

LABOTIV was founded in 2016 through the artistic collaboration of Claire Clelia Baldo and Piero Viti. Their work merges photography, painting, performance and writing, in an ongoing exploration of identity, memory, and the act of looking. The diptych becomes a dialectical language where both visions interact. Influenced by pictorial and cinematic traditions, their world unfolds in long-term projects such as FATICA and DIPTYCH, combining human presence, introspection and scenographic construction.

Claire Clelia Baldo

Franco-Italian artist Claire Clelia Baldo constructs a sensitive universe traversed by dream, memory, and inner exile. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the Cours Florent in Paris, and holding a degree in Arts & Multimedia from the University of Paris-VIII, she develops a slow, fragmentary practice in which photography becomes a space of apparition. Her gaze has been shaped by the territories she has crossed, the silences she has welcomed, and visions suspended between reality and imagination. She composes a visual alphabet of meditative lines, oneiric resonances, and reassembled fragments. Since 2016, based in Venice, she has continued a research focused on the human figure and its metamorphoses—both intimate and archetypal.

Piero Viti

Photographer, illustrator, and graphic designer, Piero Viti graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and trained in theater and Commedia dell’Arte. Influenced by Caravaggio, Vermeer, and Van Dyck, he creates meditative, rigorous photography marked by attention to detail, shadow, and unpredictability. With a background in graphic design and major editorial projects, he eventually chose photography as his primary language—seeking depth and moments of truth. 

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Présentation du duo LABOTIV

LABOTIV est né en 2016 de la rencontre entre Claire Clelia Baldo et Piero Viti. Leurs pratiques artistiques croisent photographie, peinture, performance et écriture, dans une recherche constante sur l’identité, la mémoire et le regard. Leur travail se structure autour de la forme du diptyque, qu’ils utilisent comme un langage dialectique permettant à leurs visions respectives de dialoguer. Nourri d’influences picturales et cinématographiques, leur univers se déploie dans des projets au long cours tels que FATICA ou DIPTYCH, mêlant présence humaine, introspection et construction scénographique.

Claire Clelia Baldo

Artiste franco-italienne, Claire Clelia Baldo construit un univers sensible traversé par le rêve, la mémoire et l’exil intérieur. Formée aux Beaux-Arts de Rome, au Cours Florent à Paris, et diplômée en Arts & Multimédia à l’Université Paris-VIII, elle développe une pratique lente et fragmentaire, où la photographie devient un lieu d’apparition. Son regard s’est façonné au fil de territoires traversés, de silences accueillis, de visions suspendues entre réel et imaginaire. Elle compose un alphabet visuel fait de lignes méditées, de résonances oniriques et de fragments réassemblés. Depuis 2016, installée à Venise, elle poursuit un travail de recherche sur la figure humaine et ses métamorphoses, à la fois intimes et archétypales.

Piero Viti

Piero Viti est photographe, dessinateur et graphiste de formation. Diplômé de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Venise, il se forme également au théâtre et à la Commedia dell’Arte. Influencé par les grands maîtres de la lumière comme Caravage, Vermeer et Van Dyck, il développe une photographie rigoureuse et méditative, marquée par l’attention au détail, à l’ombre et à l’imprévisible. Après un parcours riche en design graphique et en projets éditoriaux internationaux, il choisit la photographie comme langage principal, en quête de profondeur humaine et d’instant de vérité.

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Presentazione del duo LABOTIV

LABOTIV nasce nel 2016 dalla collaborazione artistica tra Claire Clelia Baldo e Piero Viti. Il loro lavoro fonde fotografia, pittura, performance e scrittura, in una continua esplorazione dell’identità, della memoria e dello sguardo. Il dittico diventa un linguaggio dialettico in cui le visioni si confrontano. Influenzato dalla pittura e dal cinema, il loro universo si sviluppa in progetti a lungo termine come FATICA e DIPTYCH, combinando presenza umana, introspezione e costruzione scenografica.

Claire Clelia Baldo

Artista franco-italiana, Claire Clelia Baldo costruisce un universo sensibile attraversato dal sogno, dalla memoria e dall’esilio interiore. Formata all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, al Cours Florent di Parigi e laureata in Arti & Multimedia presso l’Università Paris-VIII, sviluppa una pratica lenta e frammentaria, in cui la fotografia diventa un luogo di apparizione. Il suo sguardo si è formato attraversando territori, accogliendo silenzi e visioni sospese tra realtà e immaginazione. Compone un alfabeto visivo fatto di linee meditate, risonanze oniriche e frammenti ricomposti. Dal 2016 vive a Venezia, dove prosegue una ricerca sulla figura umana e le sue metamorfosi, al tempo stesso intime e archetipiche.

Piero Viti

Fotografo, disegnatore e grafico, Piero Viti si è diplomato all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia e si è formato anche nel teatro e nella Commedia dell’Arte. Influenzato da Caravaggio, Vermeer e Van Dyck, sviluppa una fotografia meditativa e rigorosa, attenta ai dettagli, alle ombre e all’imprevedibilità. Dopo un percorso nella grafica e nei progetti editoriali, ha scelto la fotografia come suo principale linguaggio, alla ricerca della profondità umana e dell’istante di verità.

Exhibitions

2025 – 22 May, Group exhibition, Andy Warhol face-to-face, Aria Art Gallery, Florence.

2024 – 09-13 October 2024, Group exhibition ARS GRATIA ARTIS, StART KX 2024, London.

2024 – 01.03.24/24.03.24, Group exhibition SILENT TRANSITIONS, curated by Nataša Radojević and Chunmeng Yang, Aria Art Gallery, Florence.

2023 – October 2023/January 2024, Group exhibition TÊTE – À – TÊTE, curated by Nataša Radojević, Drina Gallery, Belgrade.

2023 – 7.10.23/15.01.24, Group exhibition Ripensare il Paesaggio vs Ripensare l’identità, FATICA, curated by Claire Baldo & Paul di Felice, Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice.

2023 – July 2023 – Artwork by Fabrizio Plessi in collaboration with LABOTIV – Piero Viti portrait, for the UFFIZI Self-portraits exhibition in Florence.

2023 – July/August 2023, Group exhibition “Spotlight“, Verena’s Dance, curated by Natasa Radojevic, Aria Art Gallery, Firenze.

2023 – KDA The Apartment, Installation Bestiarium Minimum, Belgrade.

2023 –  XII Edizione MIA Fair 2023, (23-26 March), Verena’s Dance, Drina
Gallery in collaboration with Aria Art Gallery and FL Gallery Wizard.

2021 – October/December 2021, Exhibition OverAndAbove organized by Drina Gallery, curated by Nataša Radojević and Jelena Ðakonović, Firenze.

2019 – August/September 2019, Nos Muses – collectif Calliope, 59 rue de Rivoli, Paris.

2018 – March/October 2018, Exhibition Bernard Dumerchez Editeur, museum MuDO (Musée du Département de l’Oise à Beauvais), Beauvais.

2017 – December 2017, Venice International Performance Art Week, “CO-CREATION LIVE FACTORY – Prologue 1”, European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora, Venice.

Pubblications

PASCAL HAUDRESSY, David Rosenberg, Editions Skira, 2023

RIPENSARE IL PAESAGGIO vs RIPENSARE L’IDENTITÀ, Oculus Foto Festival, FATICA, 2023.

– 10.2023 Artribune / Zarabazà / / Artsupp / itinerarinellarte/ Ottiche Parallele Magazine / The Mammoth Reflex

– POSH, Digital Inspire The Future : Fabrizio Plessi, Posh 106, 2023.

– Plessi, The Soul Of Stone. Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 2017.

– Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Mexican (in) Documentado, 2017/2018.

– Preach R Sun, New Street Action (Neo Emancipation), “When the black man screams, the entire world will stop”.

– Balitronica Gomez is at Colonia La Nueva Santa María, 2016.

– The arts&science piece Stelarc wrote for the V&A Digital Design Weekend & Virtual Futures salon event – Alternative Anatomies – London, “Inadequate / Ambivalent / Indifferent – Complicit And Contestable Bodies”.