Eléonore de Montesquiou
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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. She participated in international festivals: 2016 Gaieté Lyrique, HKW Berlin; 2015 Opuzen Film Festival, Croatia; 2015 Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg; 2014 Rencontres Internationales, Paris-Berlin; 2013 BWPWAP, Transmediale 2013, Berlin, cur. Marcel Schwerin; 2013 NO festival, Ufa, Russia; 2012 Belo Horizonte International Film Festival, Brazil.

*1970 in Paris. Lives and works in Tallin, Estland and in Berlin, Germany