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Agnès

Geoffray

Invited artist

As an iconographer, Agnès Geoffray probes, elaborates and reactivates images. Through staging, reactivation and photographic associations, she reveals a world of latent and mysterious tensions.

At the crossroads of photography, text and performance, her work questions the survival of archetypal gestures that draw their source from a heterogeneous repertoire: anonymous and vernacular photography, medical photography, press photography, etc. Her work focuses on the poetic and political dimensions of images.

Often based on archival sources, her proposals result from a process of fictionalised reconstruction and question the idea of reminiscence. She re-enacts and reinvents the images that surround us on a daily basis, inviting viewers to "re-consider" their memories.

Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Lyon and Paris, she was in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome. Solo exhibitions at the Frac Auvergne, the Point du Jour and the Centre Photographique d'Île-de-France have accompanied group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, the Rencontres d'Arles, the Jeu de Paume and the Mac Val. She has exhibited abroad, including at the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg and the Musée de L'Élysée in Lausanne. She is represented by Galerie Maubert and published by La Lettre volée.