Irena Haiduk: NULA

<p class="c-PJLV"><em>Irena Haiduk: Nula</em> is a hybrid apparatus, a feature film in production and an active exhibition. It resituates the role of the museum as a camera in the most literal sense of the word. Not a passive site for the display of sense objects, <em>Nula</em> is a chamber for the accumulation, projection, and transmission of images, gestures, and desires.</p> <p class="c-PJLV">Set in 1990s Yugoslavia, <em>Nula</em> depicts a society unraveling under the weight of civil war, sanctions, and hyperinflation. Currency becomes meaningless and all value dissolves into violence. The film follows three women—Anu, a national bank illustrator; Magi, a statistician; and Nula, a teenager—who become a forger, a prostitute, and bait. Through these characters, Haiduk confronts the aesthetics of political breakdown and the pressures, psychological and economic, that shape how people survive under collapse. As their identities shift in response to a disintegrating system, the film reveals how survival blurs the line between fiction and infrastructure, possession and embodiment, resistance and complicity.</p> <p class="c-PJLV">Filming for <em>Nula</em>, Haiduk’s debut feature-length film, will take place from May 15 to June 5, 2025, inside the exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum. During this period, the museum’s first and second floor will function as active production sites, where all visitors entering the space are witnesses to the film’s ecology. Throughout the exhibition’s run, the project remains open to the public through a series of programs and performances that invite visitors to take on shifting roles, blurring the lines between audience, actor, and accomplice.</p>