Noémie Goudal is on all fronts this summer.
At the same time, she did a solo show,
Phoenix,
at the Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles in the Trinitaires church (not to mention her two works in the collective exhibition
Chant du ciel
at the Monoprix) and participated in
L'Horizon events
at the Château d'Oiron (2) , in Deux-Sèvres.
In both cases, she presents her latest work.
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Noémie Goudal,
Phoenix IV
, 2021. Courtesy of Les filles du calvaire gallery and the artist.
The artist, born in 1984, a graduate of the Royal Art College of Arts in London, is interested in
deep time
(the geological history of the planet) and paleoclimatology (the study of past climates).
His approach draws from photography, performance and video.
In the half-light of the Church of the Trinitarians, the journey begins with five very seductive large-format color images.
Noémie Goudal photographed a palm grove, incorporated printed images that she had just taken, before photographing the place again, creating a work on perception bordering on hallucination.
fire against ice
More disturbing in their reflections, the two hypnotic films projected in the nave of the church.
In
Below the Deep South
(2020), tropical scenes move slowly before catching fire, like an optical illusion.
"As the decor crackles and burns revealing another layer, the work questions the possibility of renewal offered by fire while recalling its destructive qualities", comments curator Alona Pardo.
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Image taken from the video
Below the Deep
South, 2021. Courtesy of Les filles du calvaire gallery and the artist.
The other film
Inhale Exhale
(2021) uses the arctic environment of the Bering Strait as its conceptual surface.
Landscape decorations representing banana trees and other plant species rise and fall in the water, delivering a questioning of level 0, that of the sea.
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Noemie Goudal.
Phoenix IV
, 2021. Courtesy of Les Filles du Calvaire gallery and the artist.
To explore this interconnection between human and non-human, and to support her philosophy according to which the earth is a living organism with its own temporal logic, Noémie Goudal and the director Clémence Poésy also presented in July, during the Festival d'Avignon, in the listed courtyard of the Lambert Collection,
Anima,
an almost totally digital installation-performance where the soft images, of trees projected on three large cinema screens, change imperceptibly until the fire that devastates everything.
Noémie Goudal signs a manifesto against the end of the world.
(1)
Phoenix
, at Trinitarian Church, until August 28, 2022
(2)
The Horizon of Events
, at the Château d'Oiron, until October 2, 2022
To read:
Noémie Goudal
, text by Guillaume Logé, Percevoir collection, editions of La Martinière.
A reflection on the images of the visual artist, which leave room for multiple interpretations as much as they question the fragility of our presence on Earth.