Eloïse Lega is a multidisciplinary artist who combines traditional techniques like engraving, photography, drawing, etc. with digital techniques like video, electronics, laser engraving, in her installations. Her concerns revolve around the themes of disappearance, the passage of time and the fragility of life.
Where am I standing? in the face of inevitable time? En voie de disparition (Endangered) is based on a photograph from her first solo exhibition Absences at the Botanique in Brussels. Photographs are traces that accompany memories. Once taken out of their private setting and sold in flea markets, they lose their sentimental value in favor of financial value. Once anonymity appears, a second death occurs when no words can any longer animate the image. This is how in his work, certain recovered images are altered. In this case, bad weather, revealing the decline of this memory, this ongoing forgetting and this persisting presence despite everything.
www.eloiselega.com/
Title: En voie de disparition (2019 – 2023)
Artist: Eloïse Lega
From: La Châtaigneraie, Flémalle (BE)
To: Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster (DE)