Visions et traces : technologies numériques, mémoire et lieux dans le travail d’Eva L’Hoest

In the framework of her solo exhibition The Mindful Hand, artist Eva L’Hoest and the two curators – Vincent Crapon and Stilbé Schroeder – will talk about the key ideas and concepts behind the exhibition and the artist’s video and sculptural work. The discussion will focus on the specific narrative forms in the artist’s video practice, her creative processes, and the relationships between memory and architectural spaces. It will furthermore address the impact of history and recent developments in digital media technologies on her work.

Eva Mancuso, philosopher and writer, who collaborated with Eva L’Hoest on the video Main Station that is shown in the exhibition, will join the conversation.
 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Eva L’Hoest’s practice uses digital language like an archaeologist’s tool to address questions of origins and memories. By associating sculptures, performances and audiovisual installations, she explores the way in which collective and individual mental images can be reactivated and reanimated in a technological form. Based on the materiality of bodies and their technological forms, her work probes contemporary technologies for their capacity to record and expose the world, bringing forth new narratives and forms inscribed within the limits and potentials of machines. Eva L’Hoest infiltrates the data of our digital age as much as primary mythologies, and thus brings to the surface visual and audible forms that create new territories of relationships at the crossroads of distinct worlds, temporalities and media. 

Eva Mancuso’s work is oriented towards critical feminism. Through her practice at the crossroads of poetry, performance, self-fiction and the visual arts, she tackles political issues through the intimate, the everyday, through what is considered to be household, trivial and anodyne. With simple words and plenty of pop-culture references, she tells of the glasses that pile up in the sink, the TV series we no longer enjoy watching, the burnt bread we eat anyway: she addresses what is inscribed in us in spite of ourselves, and the ruptures we experience with others and with ourselves to free ourselves from it.  

Her first book, Je n’arrive pas à parler et à dire des choses en même temps, was released in April 2024 by L’Arbre de Diane. 

Vincent Crapon is a curator and exhibition organiser. He is the cofounder and curator of Elektron, a new platform for digital art. Previously he held curatorial positions at Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture, Mudam Luxembourg and MAC Lyon. He curated and organised exhibitions with artists Ziyang Wu + Mark Ramos, ScanLAB Projects, Roberto Fassone, Cecilia Bengolea, Jutta Koether, Nairy Baghramian, Adam Linder, Trajal Harrell and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Furthermore, he collaborated with institutions and museums such as ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (Karlsruhe), HEK (House of Electronic Arts Basel), Ars Electronica (Linz), Museum Brandhorst (Munich), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris). He regularly contributes to research projects, publications, talks and conferences on contemporary art and digital culture. 

After living, studying, and working in Brussels and Strasbourg, Stilbé Schroeder returned to Luxembourg in 2015 and joined Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain as exhibition coordinator. In 2017 and 2019, she was assistant curator of the Luxembourg pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Since 2023 she is head of exhibitions and curator, and participating in the reflections and constitution of the institution’s exhibition programme. She has been appointed curator of the Luxembourg pavilion – represented by artist Aline Bouvy – at the Venice Biennale in 2026.