Acquisition :

2017

Description

2014

HD video

00:05:11

Purchase SPACE Liège

Eva L’Hoest’s primary aim is to explore memory and its strange, minute, lingering reality. She tracks down the often blurred, indeterminate ways in which reminiscence appears. Working at the limits of perception when it becomes affect, emotion, starting from the accidents of light as “the operator of a memory that interprets, diverts, selects or sometimes saturates and alters images “*, Eva L’Hoest is an artist for whom intuition plays a decisive role. Intuition as a working method, as a decision-making process in the literal sense, since intuitio, “the eye”, is its etymological Latin root. Piece after piece, this work defines “a single plastic modality that is that of a blurred form, a migratory form; as if the subjects treated had all been caught in a state of transition, between construction and deconstruction, reconstruction and erasure “*. This wandering, this scanning, which owes as much to the scanner as to the pure optics of the eye since man first saw, this combination of recognition and loss of information, revisits in this exhibition the very ancient techniques of the art of memory, also known as the “method of places”. As far back as Antiquity, people have used architecture to help them remember what they said, mentally moving from one room to another, associating symbols or strong emotions to mobilize rhetoric. Between spaces and memories, passages are created via powerful mental images that set both body and mind in motion. AF Lesuisse

By the same artist

Eva L'Hoest
Acquisition : 2017
Localisation : Liège-SPACE