Noemie Goudal. Photo: Thierry Bal, courtesy of Artangel.
Noemie Goudal
PROJECT
Noémie Goudal’s work stages geology as performance. In the video Grande vide, a constructed rock face splits open, evoking the East African Rift’s imperceptibly slow separation, while a rumbling soundtrack makes deep time feel physically present. Supra strata imagines a future geologist reading our era through plastiglomerates – plastic fused with sediment – as a forest set melts and collapses, exposing its own rigging. Tropiques IV layers a Spanish jungle within a French forest, deliberately revealing clips and armature. Across all three works, Goudal blurs the line between invention and record, treating photography itself as layered and provisional, endlessly searching for a scale beyond human comprehension.
The acquisition of this artist’s work is supported by Bowness Family Foundation
ABOUT
Noémie Goudal studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins, London, before completing a Master of Arts in Photography at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2010. Her work has been exhibited internationally at major institutions, including at the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern and the Photographers’ Gallery, London. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, presented in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.