Boy World Effigy II (2025)
Single channel Trailer

Boy World Effigy II (2025)
4 channel video, 8 channel sound, infinite loop.

A multichannel video and audio installation centered on one of the historic Danish boys' choirs, Herning Kirkes Drengekor. The choir functions as both subject and metaphor, examining how identity is shaped within structures that can both support and constrain the individual. Ritual, discipline, and shared performance become a framework through which questions of belonging, conformity, and agency unfold.

The installation moves through a series of interconnected moments. Choir rehearsals and performances are interwoven with uncanny constructed scenes drawn from the choir members' everyday lives, while actors inhabiting predetermined roles are woven into the ensemble, questioning the distinction between authenticity and performance. Small gestures, moments of hesitation, and subtle shifts in awareness interrupt the precision of synchronized voices and movement, revealing the constant negotiation between individual expression and collective order.

Through its fragmented four channel composition, Boy World Effigy II reflects on the tensions between harmony and coercion, unity and erasure, asking how systems of belonging shape both personal identity and collective experience.

Hart Lëshkina are an artist duo based between Paris and Los Angeles. Working across photography, mixed media, installation, and film, their practice centers on power dynamics, constructed realities, image systems, and media lives. Their work operates across the contexts of visual art, fashion, and advertising.

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