Nelly-Eve Rajotte


After a first bachelor’s degree in art history, Nelly-Eve Rajotte went for a second in visual and media arts at UQAM, followed by a master’s in 2006. She is currently working as an editor and art teacher in Montréal. Nelly-Eve Rajotte’s images in motion bear witness to a research centered on the concept of duality.
Images are generally split or superimposed before melting again into another frame. The artist transforms the images she seizes, reducing them to their formal components, altering them through the modulation of captured lighting, compressing them at times into horizontal bands. The image’s architecture is thus somewhat visible and the juxtaposed soundtrack follows a similar motion.


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APEX (single-channel version) – Canada 2013
7 min – HD – no dialogue – World Premiere
M+V: Nelly-Eve Rajotte – nellyeverajotte.com

Deconstruction of the power of the elements of landscape in search of verticality. The sound space is distorted so that it offers a signifier diverted to the image. The sound quotes Slow Water by Brian Eno.

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Blanc – Canada 2016
7 min – HD – no dialogue
M+V: Nelly-Eve Rajotte – nellyeverajotte.com

A robotic camera-eye flies high in the air over the sublime northern Canadian landscape.


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Claustrophobie des grands espaces (aircraft Boneyard) – Canada 2016
5 min – HD – no dialogue – World Premiere
M: David Kristian – V: Nelly-Eve Rajotte – nellyeverajotte.com

The skeletons of hundreds of thousands of outdated airplanes at Davis-Monthan Air Force Boneyard, the largest aircraft boneyard in the world, located in the middle of Arizona’s desert. The film is an excerpt of a three-channel video installation for a gallery’s exhibition spaces. Commissioned by Dominique Sirois-Rouleau.