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Iga Vandenhove (France, 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. Her work combines field recording with installation, sound, visual art, multimedia, and documentary film. 

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As the heir to a multicultural family history marked by migration and colonial dynamics, Vandenhove explores how our subjectivities are constructed and influence our interpersonal relationships, including those between species. In an era marked by the systemic exploitation and domination of living beings, her work addresses major ethical and existential issues.

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Using materials collected in situ, Vandenhove composes immersive, interactive environments that encourage participants to express their subjectivity and agency. This process paves the way for individual and collective resilience. Through this re-enchantment process, she plays with sound and visual polysemy, superimpositions, entanglements, and unlikely connections to challenge our perceptions and overturn the anthropocentric perspective. She proposes broadening the spectrum of possibilities and sees these connections as a way to sketch new personal and collective mythologies.

Through national and international projects, she explores specific ecosystems and states of the body to forge new connections with living beings.

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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.