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Film Screening: A Ghost’s Gaze
November 7, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
November 7th, 7pm.
Meril, who passed away in 2015, was a close friend of Verseau—someone to look up to and share dreams and thoughts about the future with. In the void after her, Verseau reflects on experiences of loss and change.
Seven years after their first meeting, she visits the remote hotel where they lived together to heal from the surgeries. The now empty hotel and the tidal landscape that surrounds it create a peculiar atmosphere. In the work, the location represents a state between reality and dream, past and present, and life and death.
About the artist:
Victoria Verseau (b. 1988) is an artist and filmmaker working in various media ranging from moving images to sculpture, large-scale installation, and performance. Her artistic practice examines the body and memory formation, shaping identity through the affection of social structures. She is searching to tell untold stories, remaining in the periphery towards oblivion. Approaching destructive forgetfulness, she attempts to capture, preserve and reconstruct the fleeting memories of crucial times that shape subjectivities.
In 2023 Verseau won the postproduction award at Cannes Docs, Cannes Film Festival for her debut feature ‘Meril’. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at Fotogalleriet, Oslo ‘Hope is a dangerous thing for women like us’ (2023), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, ‘Approaching a Ghost’, and Uppsala Konstmuseum, ‘Engender my past’ (2021) . Victoria Verseau lives and works in Stockholm, where she graduated with an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in 2020. In 2017, she was the first trans woman recipient of the ANNA Prize, established by Women in Film and Television (WIFT) Sweden and UN Women Sweden to expand the knowledge of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms Discrimination against Women). Presently she is working on her debut feature film ‘Meril’.