From the 3D scan of the artist’s father produced by the London-based company Sample & Hold, Eloise Hawser has created a video unlike any other: neither entirely narrative nor purely factual, it is motivated by a desire to see everything from every angle. Several cameras map out the topography of a loved one’s body from different angles, making the thinking being an object of study. The work reflects the artist’s general approach, that of mastering a diversity of recent technologies and manufacturing techniques, and by extension, of knowledge production. Both a work of art and a documentation of the making of a work, Sample and Hold is also the starting point for other works by Eloise Hawser. It provides her with an initial material and a technical mastery that is constantly updated for other works in order to question production and reproducibility in the age of new digital technologies.

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