Eléonore de Montesquiou

Eléonore de Montesquiou is a French-Estonian artist. Her work revolves around the articulation of private and official histories, personal and national identities. It tackles the intricacies and ambiguities of living in the margins, based on her personal experience of up-rootedness. Eléonore primarily works with video; she tapes testimonies, creating artificial memories of repressed histories. Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal was her great grand aunt. Eléonore’s films are distributed by Arsenal Experimental in Berlin and DAFILMS. For this work she has participated closely with Lucy Railton, Johanna Ruukholm, Varvara Toropkova and Jenny Zinovieff.