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Eléonore De Montesquiou

Horses People Time

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«The seagulls are waking up, can you hear them? It’s really hard to believe that these are now two different cities with a border.» told Olga to Eduard on the roof of a collective housing building where she works as a lift supervisor. A white night in this border town between Estonia and Russia, Olga and Eduard are tired, they are waiting for the sun to rise. "Horse, people and time", Eduard refers to Lermontov’s poem "Borodino" and indeed at this time in this peculiar place, almost non existing, philosphy, politics, all possible topics are grasped and dealt with.

Eléonore de Montesquiou (1970, Paris, France) is a French-Estonian artist. Her work revolves around the articulation between private and official histories, personal and national identities. It tackles the intricacies and ambiguities of living in the margins, based on her personal experience of uprootedness. Eléonore primarily working with video, she tapes testimonies, creating prosthetic memories of repressed histories. In her documentary-informed works, her camera becomes the voice of these voiceless people. Her work is based on a documentary approach, translated in films, drawings and texts, it deals mainly with issues of integration/immigration/meaning of a nation in Estonia, giving voice to the Russian community.