The Mindful Hand

The Mindful Hand is Belgian artist Eva L’Hoest’s first exhibition in an institutional setting. The exhibition consists of a series of new works that question the ways in which analogue and digital image-making technologies influence our perception and our memory, modifying the notion of landscape and redrawing the boundaries between manual gesture and the mind.

Eva L’Hoest’s composite artworks mix together craftsmanship and digital techniques, the human gesture becoming an extension of the machine. A series of sculptures revisits the ancient techniques of lifecasting through the medium of 3D printing, while artificial intelligence and computer-generated images intrude on the film in a new audiovisual installation. The film is projected simultaneously across four walls, transporting us into empty domestic and institutional interiors, both real and artificial, as these morph through images taken from cinema.

Accompanied by the words of poet Eva Manusco, the exhibition The Mindful Hand questions the capacity for digital technologies to redefine language, the mechanisms of our desires, and the sometimes invisible tensions between human intention and the autonomy of machines.

Photo © Eva L’Hoest, 3D print, spray paint, 2024