LCV Winter 2013-14 - (Page 74)
ince the late 1990s, artist Isabelle Hayeur has been
us. Between the critical regard and the disturbance, she
known for her large-format digital montages, videos
creates a unique attraction, difficult to name or qualify, to
and site-specific installations. Both appealing and
these disenchanted zones, which are as if dehumanized
S
alarming, her work presents vast landscapes that denounce
because they are too humanized.
the no man's lands of contemporary industrial developments.
Her ongoing body of work, Underworlds, takes her
Hayeur's work questions the impact of Western development
through North America to probe various underwater
models on the environment and invites us to think about the
environments, especially polluted ones, but also fragile and
states of the landscape. The unknown, or unknowable, places
threatened ecosystems. Working with watertight housing
she fabricates draw attention to the non-places that surround
that allows her to photograph submerged environments of
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