Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

COMPOSITE / DE-COMPOSITED juxtaposes picturesque visions of authenticity in urban space with narratives of the High Arctic and the 20th century phantasmagoric medium of film. The short 16mm film is shot at a construction site in Brussels characterized by facadisme. In architecture, this is when a building is demolished and rebuilt from within while the exterior of the building is preserved. The film recording is merged with an account of mine extraction in mountain formations on Svalbard, and together the two elements form the story of creating an image: The film subtly addresses the relationship between planetary raw material and the landscape-as-image. Or, the relationship between the façade as raw material and the city as scenery.

Eva la Cour is a Danish visual artist and researcher with a background in fine arts as well as visual anthropology. She works with audio-visual and spatial forms of montage and display, performance and text, always negotiating with the surroundings in which her work actualizes. This reflects her general interest in notions such as fieldwork, skilled vision and mediation, which she particularly has investigated in relation to landscapes of narratives and raw materials in the Arctic terrain on Svalbard. Currently Eva la Cour lives and works in both Copenhagen and Gothenburg, where she is an artistic practice-based PhD candidate at Valand Academy of Art.