Elizabeth Price makes immersive video installations, which feature a variety of historical materials including film and video footage, archival documents, plans and photographs, and popular music. Her works are meticulously produced, often taking over a year to complete, and she regularly revisits older pieces, creating new and updated versions. She punctuates the visual material on screen with bold graphic interventions. The texts and slogans recall the aesthetics of advertising as well as political propaganda and combine corporate and academic theories to create a strange ritual undertone. The sound patterns are created from the music and rhythm of finger snaps, hand claps, percussion and vocal harmony samples. 

« I use digital video to try to explore the divergent forces that are at play when you bring together so many different technological histories… I’m interested in video as a medium that you experience sensually and can recognise. » Elizabeth Price.

Her work User Group Disco (2009) will be presented in the Musée National Fernand Léger, in resonance with Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy’s film masterpiece Ballet mécanique (1924). 

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