SILA

SILA*, Héroïnes Arctiques is an immersive, poetic work of art, somewhere between documentary and fiction: an experience of the Far North that offers a counterpoint to the virile, heroic imagery of polar expeditions. Agnès de Cayeux and her accomplices invite us to travel through virtual polar universes in the footsteps of women artists, scientists and activists who have explored this exceptional Arctic territory from the 19th century to the present day: Mary Shelley, Léonie d’Aunet, George Sand, Eunice Newton Foote, Ellen Henriette Rasmussen. She uses virtual reality as a means of revealing these invisibilized stories, giving these women a place in contemporary collective representations of the Far North.

*InGreenlandic, the word Sila refers to natural elements such as wind, air and weather, but also to a vital force that governs the universe.