Film screening & conversation: Eva Barto - The Making of the Lure (FR)
WIELS invites you to discover The Making of the Lure (2026), Eva Barlo's third film, presented in dialogue with the exhibition Call me gravity.
The screening (57 minutes) will be followed by a conversation with the artist.
Free.
Film in French with English subtitles.
© 2025 Eva Barto & Pushka
The Making of the Lure(2026)
Synopsis: Here we follow the production of a film about debt, where the protagonist is a debt-crippled Pinocchio – crowned the king of debt – ready to do anything to stay in power. In the search for funding for this political satire, the grand fiction on which our economic system is based – between scams and legal loopholes – is revealed.
Eva Barto’s work unfolds through interventions that disrupt and interrogate the capitalist economic frameworks structuring mechanisms of production, accumulation, and circulation. The artist reconfigures notions of property — both intellectual and material — as well as authorship, exchange, debt, and credit, particularly within the legal and economic infrastructures of the artworld and beyond.
Her recent film premiered in competition at Visions du Réel (2026) and will circulate through various international film festivals.
She co-founded and was a member of the art workers’ rights collective La Buse, and co-hosted the radio show ForTune on *Duuu Radio from 2018 to 2022.