During her residency in Qaanaaq, the northernmost town in Greenland, Anastasia Mityukova measured the distance separating the imaginaries of the Arctic Circle from its reality. For several years, she has been studying, deconstructing and confronting the Western visual culture of the North Pole with reality. Shaped by countless documentary films, illustrated books or photojournalistic reportages, it populated by explorers acclaimed as heroes, a fauna that has become a generic symbol of global warming, and immaculate landscapes. It promotes fantasies of purity, adventure, exoticism and authenticity, obscuring more complicated realities: multifaceted geopolitical interests, a colonial history that is not always discussed as such, or a certain ambivalence about climate change. The artist seizes on these contradictions to bring nuance and complexity to these representations, and to underline the extent to which our gaze is constructed and conditioned.
Exhibition
Bâtiment d'art contemporain
Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain?
15 February–16 April 2023
Title
Anastasia Mityukova. Avez-vous déjà vu un iceberg sous la pluie?
Date
15 February–16 April 2023
Venue
Bâtiment d'art contemporain
Curated by
Danaé Panchaud
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi
View of the exhibition Anastasia Mityukova. Have you ever seen an iceberg under the rain? © Léonard Rossi