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The video Für Elise by Evanthia Afstralou features a choreography of banal movements observed and recorded by the artist over the course of her residency at the museum and set to the sound of Beethoven’s Für Elise.
Evanthia Afstralou has received her BA degree from Wimbledon College of the Arts in London. Her videos are short clips of ‘the choreography of everyday life’. Through directing people to perform everyday activities such as tying their shoes, making coffee, flossing their teeth these activities are then turned into art, offering a different perspective, adding importance to the unimportant – from object making to working as an ‘observer’ that ‘makes nothing happen’ based on the ideas of non interference, exploring non objectified materials. ‘I think that these moments have something to do with art, if someone looks for it. But, I don’t know, I am just looking for the mouse at the back of the room that is not there...’