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Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire 2019/2020

Juliette Agnel

"Taharqa et la nuit" and "Un voyage dans le temps"
Le Château
Artistic approachBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Artistic approach

TAHARQA ET LA NUIT (Les Nocturnes night-time series – Sudan)
“This new series by Juliette Agnel is the result of her trip to Sudan, to the country of pyramids and Black Pharaohs, in February 2019.
It seemed obvious to me that Juliette Agnel had to discover and photograph these fascinating architectures which were so dear to me, and that she needed to lay eyes on Meroe.
As well as her exceptional eye and her experiences of the extreme (she had already visited Mali and the Arctic), the artist’s audacity and tenacity predisposed her to experience this particular adventure.
Although the desert sand seemed, at first, to want to protect the pyramids from Juliette’s gaze, Meroe was finally able to reveal itself to her and stimulate sublime images.” Chantal Colleu-Dumond
 
UN VOYAGE DANS LE TEMPS (A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME)​
“In addition to the Les Nocturnes series, Juliette Agnel also created a series called A Journey through Time in Sudan. It is made up of black and white images of the sombre silhouettes of architectural remains emerging from the desert.
Arranging this trip to a country which has so few visitors was far from simple. But there are always solutions when artistic evidence is required, and they were found in the delicate context of a country marked in January 2019 by a flurry of revolutionary activity which led to the country’s current political situation.
Due to their rarity, depth, poetry and the quality of emotion that they convey, these images are exceptional, and Juliette Agnel brought them back from a unique journey through space and time.” Chantal Colleu-Dumond

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Juliette AGNEL
FRANCE
 
 

Born in 1973, Juliette Agnel studied Visual Arts and Ethno-Aesthetics (Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris 1) and at the Paris Graduate School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1999.

An encounter with Jean Rouch took her travelling around Africa for over 10 years. In 2011, she designed and made a machine: the digital camera obscura which she uses to make films and take photographs. Supported by Michel Poivert who invited her to the photo seminar in 2012, her work has been exhibited in South Korea, Norway and France, in particular at the FIAC contemporary art fair (Galerie Françoise Paviot – 2013), at the Nouvelles Vagues exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo (2013), at the Close to Me exhibition curated by Guillaume Lasserre (2015), at the Mois de la Photo festival (2015) and at the Paris Photo art fair (2016). She had a solo exhibition in the Espace Van Gogh in Arles in 2014 and was invited to exhibit her work at the Les Tanneries art gallery in Amilly in 2017 by Léa Bismuth. Her Les Nocturnes night-time series was shortlisted for the Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in 2017 and was also presented at the FIAC the same year.

She continued her research into extreme landscapes during an expedition to Greenland in 2018 and was invited to produce and show this work, Les Portes de Glace (Ice doors), at the Labanque Art Centre (Béthune) during 2018-2019 for the 3rd part of the trilogy on Georges Bataille (La traversée des Inquiétudes, curated by Léa Bismuth) and simultaneously at Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire.

Juliette Agnel is represented by the Françoise Paviot Gallery.

Taharqa et la nuit, exposition de Juliette Agnel au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © J. Agnel
Un voyage dans le temps, exposition de Juliette Agnel au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © J. Agnel
Un voyage dans le temps, exposition de Juliette Agnel au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © J. Agnel

LES ARTISTES

AWARDS

2017
Nominée pour le Nouveau Prix Découverte, Rencontres d’Arles
 
2016
Nominée pour le Prix du Personnel, Neuflize
Sélectionnée pour le prix du personnel – Neuflize
 
2012
Prix Découverte, Nuits photographiques de Pierrevert
Sélectionnée pour le prix du personnel, Neuflize
Sélectionnée pour le prix Arcimboldo–Gens d’image

EXHIBITIONS

2018
Nuits étoilées et Portes de Glaces, Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Nocturnes, Galerie Pascal Goossens, Brussels, Belgium
Paris Photo, Galerie Françoise Paviot
Vertiges, 3ème volet de La traversée des inquiétudes, Labanque, Bethune, France
L’épaisseur du temps, Galerie Le Lieu, Lorient, France
Festival Nightscapade, Musée de Pyréenées, Château de Lourdes, France
Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France
 
2017
FIAC, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France
Les Nocturnes, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
L’Éternité par les Astres, Les Tanneries, Amilly, France
Les Éblouis, Maison de Chateaubriand, Week-End Intense du Mois de la Photo, France
Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France
 
2016
Art Paris Art Fair, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France
Paris Photo, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France
 
2015
Obscura, Espace Saint-Cyprien, Toulouse, France
Partie de Campagne, Saint-Briac, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France
Close to me, Centre médical et pédagogique de Rennes-Beaulieu, France
 
2014
L’Intime comme Illusion, Mois de la Photographie à Paris, Galerie Catherine Houard, France
Les Éblouis du Jardin Anne Frank, Jardin Anne Frank et grilles de la Mairie du IIIème, France
Ø (île), Espace Van Gogh, Galerie itinérante de l’IUP AIC, Arles, France
Laps, Festival Regards, Villeneuve-De-La-Rivière, France
Ø (île), Halsnoy Kloster, Norway
 
2013
FIAC Hors Les Murs, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Espace des Blancs Manteaux, France
Enfance(s), lab galerie Artyfact, France
Bruissement, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, France
Croquis d’Iphone, Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, France
Image Temps, La Galerie des Nouvelles Images, Hôtel Scribe, Paris, France
Dialogue de Bêtes, Centre Culturel Aragon, Oyonnax, France
 
2012
Le Temps Sténopé, Festival du Film de Vendôme, Chapelle Saint-Jacques, France
Photo OFF, La Bellevilloise, Galerie Émotion – Lydie Trigano, Paris, France
Les Nuits des Galeries de la FIAC, Galerie Françoise Paviot, France
A Minima, Médiathèque Marguerite Duras, Paris, France
Offshort, Cayeux-Sur-Mer, France
Les Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert, France
La Ferme des Animaux, Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France
 
2011
Photo OFF, La Bellevilloise, Mois de la photo, Galerie Lydie Trigano, Paris, France
Projection du film 4 jours dans le chantier des Halles dans le cadre du séminaire “voyage en photographie : vers d’autres frontières”, Arles, France
Dans l’Œil de Lescot, MGI et les palissades du chantier des Halles
Poils et plumes, Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, France
Sélection, School Gallery, Paris, France
Circulations, Fet’art, Parc de Bagatelle, Paris, France
 
2010
Mois de la photo off, Galerie épisodique, Paris 20ème, France
 
2009
Supernova, la Générale, Paris, France
Rêv’art, Bezons, France
Olhar e fingir, São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil
 
2008
Arcadia, château d’Oiron, France
Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Galerie Lydie Trigano, Paris, France
Plastique Danse Flore, potager du roi, Château de Versailles, France
Les femmes de Falret, CHRS Falret, Paris, France
 
2007
2×2 (Africulture) CFP, Rencontres de la photographie de Bamako, Bamako, Mali
Regarde! des enfants, Pavillon populaire, Montpellier, France
m+m colleccio, Museum of Contemporary Art of Palma de Mallorca
 
2006
M+M & friends, Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Yoga & café, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Flux, l’étage, La Générale, Paris, France
Salon H2O, Centre culturel Valery Larbaud, Vichy, France
Formalacon, La Générale, Paris, France
 
2005
Fringales, anciens abattoirs, Avallon, France
 
2004
Femmes/Femmes, Galerie d’art du Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence
Nature Cult’, musée des Avelines, Saint Cloud
Die magische Welt der Dogon, Musée de l’Homme de Hambourg, Germany
 
2001
Sincères félicitations, ENSBA / École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Mulhouse 001, Parc Expo, Mulhouse, France
Paris Photo, Galerie Marion Meyer, exposition collective Histoire d’œufs, France
 

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