Furtherance

Saint-Eustache church, Paris

2014

Leonora Hamill

Invited by Rubis Mécénat to create a work for St. Eustache, the Franco-British artist Leonora Hamill offers us her vision of the church as a place of paths and convergences.
Shot on 35mm, the work weaves together traces of everyday activities within the church, unusual architectural points of view and a live stag wandering through the space.
Leonora Hamill asked some twenty performers to retrace the steps of the various occupants of the church: priests, parishioners, tourists, soup-kitchen volunteers and their ‘guests’ thereby transcribing the collective energy specific to this place of worship. The minimalist and precise choreography merges the human and spiritual essence of St. Eustache. She collaborated with the director of photography Ghasem Ebrahimian.
The video installation was projected directly onto the eight windows of the South Entrance in front of the new Halles Garden and was visible both from the interior and the exterior of the church.

Leonora Hamill

Leonora Hamill is an artist based in New York and London who works primarily in moving image and photography. Born in Paris in 1978, she studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute in London and at the University of Oxford. She then turned to Fine Art, graduating from the International Center of Photography in New York and the Royal College of Art in London.

Hamill was the 2011 artist-in-residence at the Psychiatric Hospital of Rouffach in Alsace, France. In 2012, she was awarded the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in Paris. Her monograph Art in Progress was published by Actes Sud in 2012.
Her exhibitions include the American Academy (Rome), the Musée Géo-Charles (Grenoble), Somerset House (London) and the Tristan Hoare Gallery (London).

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