Endangered Gestures
Bruce Eesly
- Artist(s)
- Bruce Eesly
- Dates
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- Place(s)
- Casino Display - périscope
- Curators
- Vincent Crapon, Françoise Poos and Filipa Lima
Endangered Gestures, 2026. © Bruce Eesly
Two hundred years ago, photography was celebrated as a way of making images without the hand of the artist. Today, the hand is exactly where machine-made images give themselves away.
The German artist Bruce Eesly takes this as his starting point. In Endangered Gestures (2026), a short film and artist book, words recently removed from official US government websites are paired with hand signs proposed by AI. The gestures look almost innocent and never quite work, and that is precisely what makes them political.
Presented within a small, near-ground-level window at Casino Display, Endangered Gestures can be seen every day and night.
Practical information
1 r. de la Loge, Ville-Haute
L-1945 Luxembourg
périscope is a window at ground level showing a video.
Visible 24/7 for the duration of the exhibition.
Free.
Bruce Eesly (b.1984) is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Working with photography, video, archives and generative imaging technologies, he examines how photographic images, classification systems and technological infrastructures shape our understanding of reality. Reimagining archives and speculating on alternative histories, he uses artificial intelligence as both subject and medium in his work. His approach employs humour and a blurring of fact and fiction to question narratives of technological progress and assumptions of photographic truth. Bruce Eesly’s work is held in institutional collections and was presented at the Rencontres d’Arles (FR), C/O Berlin (DE), Ars Electronica (AT), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE) and Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival (CN), among others. He was named a Foam Talent and awarded a Prix Ars Electronica for his short film Endangered Gestures in 2026.
Bruce Eesly Endangered Gestures is presented by Elektron in collaboration with Casino Display, on the occasion of Bruce Eesly’s week-long residency at Casino Display’s premises.
périscope is a diorama-like installation set within a small, near-ground-level window at Casino Display. It is usually activated through In situ creations, during which guest artists develop a moving image project.
Oeuvres
Bruce Eesly
Written and directed by: Bruce Eesly
Voice actors: Lisette Poivre, Bruce Eesly
Exposition
Bruce Eesly, Endangered Gestures est organisée par le Casino Display en collaboration avec Elektron.
Commissariat : Vincent Crapon, Françoise Poos, Filipa Lima (Casino Display)