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Iga Vandenhove (France, 1989) whose practice, rooted in field recording, spans sound, visual art and image. Working within a situated approach attached to the diversity of environments — coastlines, forests, mountains, glaciers — she probes territories to extract their natural and anthropogenic dynamics.

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From this material, she composes installations and sound pieces that, through the accumulation of individual elements or the entanglement of sounds, cause a living space to emerge where everything is connected — mirroring the logic of the living world and its interdependencies. These works shift the gaze and the ear, restoring attention to what we have ceased to perceive: presences, alterities, non-human forms of life — and in doing so, raising the question of our own place within these environments.

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Recipient of the Phonurgia Nova Field Recording Prize 2022 and graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Cergy (DNSEP with unanimous jury commendation), she pursues a practice that takes her from the chalk cliffs of Étretat to the Arctic glaciers, from the Amazonian rainforest to the shores of Québec. Héritage érodé (2023), exhibited at the Jardins d'Étretat, and Les voix du Madidi (2022), acquired by the collection of the Musée Réattu in Arles, are among her most recognised works, also broadcast and covered by French and international media. Since 2025 she has been developing a major project around sea ice, the third chapter of which will take her aboard an icebreaker in 2026. In parallel, Peau de forêt, a film in production with Avril Film, extends this same approach into the Bolivian Amazonian rainforest.

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After studying graphic design, it was during a training course in documentary writing and directing that she made her first short film, Les seigneurs, in 2015, which looks at the wait for migrant teenagers during the period when their files are being processed. Following on from this documentary, Les madeleines sonores (2016-2019), a sound installation born of work with young migrants, makes the medium of sound the vehicle for expressing a sensory memory, linking sound recording and speaking. Curious about the appropriation of means of expression and active, activist cultural democratization, in 2020 she produced a series of podcasts for the L'Île de la Tortue company, based around the Clameuses, a group of female theatre-goers from Clichy-sous-Bois who are self-proclaimed theatre critics. In another project, Echap, a sound piece co-written with Noémie Fargier and Vanessa Vudo and based exclusively on field recordings taken around the world, navigates between real and imaginary territories, probing possible spaces of freedom in an increasingly standardized society. In Les Voix du Madidi, a sound piece recorded with forest rangers in a Bolivian nature park, we explore the entanglement of animal, human and technological worlds. Her film Peau de forêt, currently being made in the Bolivian Amazon, focuses on how extractivism is changing the relationship between human beings and other living beings. His latest creation, Héritage Erodé, created with Isabel Judez, is a plastic and sound installation exhibited in the gardens of Etretat. By kinetically representing the downstream cliff with more than 2,500 pieces of marine terrazzo, it questions the disappearance of natural resources used and transformed by humans.