When trekking through the Amazonian rainforest, you might expect to come across an Aztec ruin, or a tribal settlement, but not a piece of cosmic Indian architecture. Likewise at sea, the horizon may be broken by the rising mast of a sailboat, or a jagged coastal outcrop, but not the Brutalist concrete structures from the 20th Century seen in Noémie Goudal‘s photographs. What gives? Trickery, that’s what. Exploring the boundaries between reality and artifice, Goudal employs some clever use of a printer to juxtapose her seemingly incongruous and yet absolutely complimentary elements.
The French artist uses scale printouts composed of individual sheets of paper joined together and imports them into interesting locations; this practice is one of the varied methods of expression explored by Goudal currently on display at The New Art Gallery Walsall in the exhibition The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise. As well as the photographic work, Goudal, who divides her time between Paris and London, has been commissioned by the gallery to produce a video work especially for the show. The multi-screen film installation Tanker/Diver debuts at the gallery during the exhibition, which runs from 10 July to 14 September.
Noémie Goudal,
Observatoire IX, 2014
Lambda Print on silver Baryta paper,
150 x 120 cm,
© Noémie Goudal
Noémie Goudal,
Satellite l, 2013,
lightjet print,
168 x 213 cm,
Courtesy the artist
Noémie Goudal,
Observatoire VIII, 2014
Lambda Print on silver Baryta paper,
150 x 120 cm,
© Noémie Goudal
Noémie Goudal,
Tanker (film still), 2014,
Courtesy the artist.
Commissioned by The New Art Gallery Walsall
Noémie Goudal,
Observatoire lll, 2013,
lambda print on silver baryta paper,
102 x 150 cm,
Courtesy the artist.
