Cécile’s World

Multimedia Artist Cécile B. Evans presents an exhibition at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MuMoK), Vienna. 

Evans’ multimedia installations create experiences with a direct impact. It is striking how quickly one’s own relationships — both personal and with the Internet and social media — are called into question. Evans applies humanist benchmarks to a world which is per se meticulously controllable, a world which we have inhabited to date in the firm belief that we are free and independent.

I want
 to

I want to change the world. It sounds wrong when I say it out loud.

I want to express my­self, but I can’t find the words. 

The titular protago­nist of Cécile B. Evans’ newest video work, Amos’ World, an­nounces his intentions in the 25-minute piece with these words, uttered in a fit of frustrated mega­lomania. Amos is a puppet with a fixed facial expression, and the architect of a completely engineered build­ing, a microcosm, a world.

The film is on view in Vienna’s Mumok as part of a larger installation, in which viewers enter a multi-story structure — something like a Brutalist housing estate in minia­ture–in front of the screen. Each sits alone in a cubicle, mirroring the single apartments in the work. They see Amos trying to create his world, complaining, in dialogue with an off-camera voice who identifies herself as the weather, that the building’s tenants aren’t behaving properly.