Charlotte Lagro’s work includes photography, animation, recorded performance and sculpture. This wide range of media is mobilized to locate and dismantle the seemingly fixed narratives that make up everyday life. Like an operation, she explodes, cuts and reattaches her subjects. As such, her work can be seen as a series of carefully crafted experiments that bring out the aesthetics of visual impressions and routine acts. To this end, the choreography performed by a worker assembling a product or the hands of a pianist playing a sonata serve as analogies. In the video “etude”, for example, we see two hands folding a plane. In 2010, Charlotte was invited to create a piece for the 125th anniversary of the Valkenburg tourist office. It consists of a large aquarium containing a miniature version of the same castle ruin in which it was exhibited. Where once there was an empty sky, goldfish now live around the site. In the works of the SPACE collection, the fish itself has become an object of reconstruction. In one video, it is shown in a swimming motion. But it is drawn in “exploded”, a mapping system commonly used by engineers to visualize the complex anatomy of machines and their individual components. These strategies of mirror narration, dissection and reassembly characterize Charlotte’s work. They create a space of detachment through dislocation and isolation. This temporarily frees the visual impression of the subject from its commonalities, exposing its “taken-for-granted” precedent.