Pilot, Painting and Filmmaking Every Day

27/11/2026 - 08/01/2027

Norman Leto

 

Pilot, Painting and Filmmaking, Every Day is the latest stage in Norman Leto’s creative process surrounding a film provisionally titled Pilot 9_11, which tells the story of fighter pilots patrolling the eastern coast of the United States during the September 11 attacks. The historical event serves as a starting point for examining the images, narratives and political consequences that continually resurface, shaping the way we perceive the present. Pilot refers both to the figure of a military pilot and to the term used in popular culture to describe a pilot episode—the first instalment of a television series, intended to test the potential of a developing narrative and gauge audience response. The exhibition unfolds precisely within this space between anticipation and realisation, between a singular event and its endless interpretations. The film is neither a closed narrative nor an object documenting the production process; rather, it opens up a field of associations in which the past remains an active component of the present. The project also refers to Leto’s everyday practice, in which filmmaking coexists with painting. The two media establish parallel modes of thinking: film develops a narrative, while painting allows for a more direct, intuitive processing of ideas and images. Pilot approaches this interdependence as an open process in which different forms of visual expression expand the field of meaning.