Evita Vasiljeva

Blandine Soulage

Venue

Guimet Museum

Lyon

Born 1985 in Riga, Latvia.
Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

A serial transformer of exhibition spaces into experimental workshops, Evita Vasiljeva makes site-specific installations that are open to multiple interpretations. For the Lyon Biennale, she has adapted her interactive piece Impulse (J or Imp) to the disused storerooms of the Musée Guimet. She invokes haunting childhood memories involving burglaries of her family apartment and the security systems of her neighbours in Riga. The installation, including motion detectors that switch sound and electrical devices on and off, generates a sound and light choreography activated by spectators’ movements and sounds (imperceptible noises previously recorded in the museum and amplified). When it lights up in bright green and gives off a hum, Vasiljeva is beckoning the audience into an immersive experience that will put their senses on high alert.