Eva Nielsen is a french-danish artist born in 1983, living and working in Paris. In 2008, she won a Socrate grant which enabled her to study at Central Saint Martins in London. She received her MA with honors from the School of Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2009. She then won the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts/Thaddaeus Ropac (2009), the Prix Art Collector (2014) and the Grand Prix de la Tapisserie d’Aubusson (2017).

Nobody. In the middle of nowhere. Snow, earth, dirt. But also swings, football nets, advertising boards. The scenery is familiar to us: a snowy landscape, an abandoned urban zone, Californian deserted suburbs... Seen from the train, it appears like a moving image of an amalgam of concrete, nature and void, giving an impression of «déjà vu». This impression is emphasized by the redundant use of an all-over screen-print that blurs the landscape and alters the viewers perception in a game of black- transparency. The matters are passing through it, then the surface is scraped and the dirt blown away. Despite the figurative, what you are looking at is not obvious. One has to spend the time to properly grasp what is given on the canvas, in order to tune with its layered temporality. Taken as a fundamental condition of seeing the luring apparatus of vision, Eva Nielsen generates trompe-lʼoeil representations grounded in the everyday experience of image production: the digital condition of the image is her permanent shift between the invisible and the optical illusion. Taking up the in- between spaces generated by the flaws of our vision allows realities where our senses are blurred beyond the comfort zone of our perception.