Leslie Epsztein
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About the Artist
Born in Bordeaux, Leslie Epsztein is a French projection mapping artist. After studying drawing, performing arts, and visual communication in France, she spent five years working with video artist Xavier de Richemont before launching her independent practice in 2015.
In 2016, she worked for “Chartres en Lumières” and “La Fête des Lumières” in Lyon, France where she co-produced “Voyage” with Camille Gross. The project traveled to Quito, Ecuador, before returning to Picadilly Circus, in London, UK. Since then, she has created and contributed to large-scale light installations for cities and festivals across France, Europe and the United States.
Her favourite themes are time, space, science, dreams and mythologies, which she likes to combine with art history and the cultural elements of the places she visits. With a background in drawing, cinema and graphic design, she likes to combine both painterly and very graphic approaches in her relationship with the image, paying particular attention to the narrative and musical rhythm of her projects.
About the Work
Nord is a four-minute projection mapping experience exploring North through its geographical, celestial, and magnetic dimensions. Since ancient times, North has served as a reference point: a direction, a guide, but also an invisible force that influences our world.
For centuries, the Big Dipper has guided travelers in the Northern Hemisphere toward the North Star. A celestial geography emerges, shaped by constellations, myths, and observation.
From the sky to the Earth, ancient maps, compass roses, compasses, and lines of longitude reveal a territory where reality and imagination intertwine. North becomes a direction to seek and explore.
Invisible yet very real, the Earth's magnetic field reveals a force in perpetual motion. Nord takes us from the visible to the invisible, from the stars to the center of the Earth.