Grand Prix 2016

Creation – Eva Nielsen, artist born in 1983, French-Danish, lives and works in France (Paris). Weaving – Atelier Patrick Guillot, Aubusson, 2018 Low-warp tapestry, cotton warp, wool and silk weft, 7.5 threads per cm Dimensions: 3m height x 2.20m width Dyeing: Thierry Roger, Aubusson

Eva Nielsen is a painter and creator of singular works, crafting living landscapes through the lens of monuments, porticos, architectural elements, and draperies. Time is stationary in the present, but equally in the past and future, with a strange documentary presence where the photographic and pictorial aspects intertwine, blurring boundaries and spaces while maintaining the precision of an archaeological reality. Her paintings open up to a depth of planes, accentuating the presence of objects within the space-time continuum.

This surrealistic yet hyper-realistic quality is mirrored in the tapestry, which challenges the viewer with its textures and stitches, confronting a foreground and distant background that are both precise and open to interpretation. Lucite is a textile transcription of a work where the artist has layered the impression of a mosquito net over a photograph of a landscape. The texture and weaving points themselves serve as a treatment of the veil, which here becomes a new subjective filter of the landscape. The title Lucite refers to the disease of the same name, which prohibits direct exposure to light and necessitates skin protection through a veil.