Juliette Agnel

Biography
View works. Juliette Agnel, Porte III, 2018
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Born in 1973, Juliette Agnel studied fine arts and ethno-aesthetics at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In the 1990s, took courses with  Africanist Jean-Louis Paudrat and developed a passion for Marcel Griaule and Michel Leiris, as well as for Victor Segalen's expeditions to China, which sparked her love for travel. A meeting with filmmaker and ethnologist Jean Rouch led her to explore the roads of Africa for over ten years. Juliette Agnel is both an explorer of photographic material and the vastness of nature. Two photographic series, “Laps,” based on the use of Super 8 film, and “Les Éblouis,” for which she created a digital camera obscura to produce a set of portraits, have led her to perceive blur and randomness as potential translations of human memory.

One night in 2016, in Spain, the sensation of being immersed in the starry sky of the Bardenas desert reactivated a foundational experience she had lived in the plateaus of Dogon country a few years earlier: the unbreakable bond between man and nature. This resulted in the series “Nocturnes,” created in two parts—at night, observing and photographing the stars, and during the day, capturing the desert landscape—exhibited in light boxes, notably during the Rencontres d'Arles and FIAC in 2017. The work she produced became the starting point for other series such as “La lune noire” and “La grande montagne.”

Subsequently, from the ruins of Sudanese necropolises to the Arrée Mountains and Greenland, the traveling photographer captures the relationship between humans and the geological or botanical power of landscapes. Her latest series, “La main de l'enfant,” focused on the prehistoric caves of Arcy-sur-Cure, was exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in the summer of 2023. For Juliette Agnel, art is about this relationship between the visible and the invisible, an absolute that transcends us and prompts us to question the foundations of our humanity. For her, it is about relentlessly pursuing the same quest by observing the forces that surround us but that we cannot see: “to grasp what unites us profoundly, reminding us that the small body of Man is a meaningful fragment of the cosmos.”

 

EXHIBITIONS

2024   La Main de l’Enfant, Hors Cadre, Auxerre

2024   Indicibles, Centre d’art et photographie de Lectoure, L’été photographique de Lectoure

2024 Van Gogh et les étoiles, Fondation Van Gogh, Arles (exposition collective)

2024 Pierre, feuille, silex, Jeu de Paume, Tours

2024 French Photography Today : A New Vision of Reality, Sungkok Art Museum, Séoul (exposition collective)

2024 Prix Niépce 2023, Jeu de Paume de Tours

2023 Prix Niépce 2023, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)

2023 Aux étoiles le poids de la terre et les étoiles pures,Chilgok Festival, Corée

2023 Chambre à brouillard, L’Ahah #Griset, Paris

2023 Histoires de pierres, d’après Roger Caillois, Jean de Loisy, et Sam Stourdze,Villa Medicis, Rome

2023 Nous, Laminaires. 2013-23023..., Fondation Clément, Martinique

2023 La main de l'enfant, Les Rencontres d’Arles

2022 Les Nuits, centre d’art Campredon, l’Île-sur-la-Sorgue

2022 Monolithes, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris

2022 Pharaon des deux terres, l’épopée africaine des Rois de Napata, Musée du Louvre, Paris (exposition collective)

2021 Ce qui nous lie, Centre d’art Méandres, Huelgoat

2021 Le voyage à Carthage, Terre de parole, année Flaubert 21, Duclair

2021 Au fil du Nil, sur les traces de Ducamp et Flaubert, année Flaubert 21, Abbaye de Jumiège

2021 Aux étoiles le poids de la terre, Galerie Le Carré d’art, Chartres de Bretagnes

2021 Thawra ! Révolution ! Soudan, histoire d’un soulèvement, commissariat de l’exposition, Les Rencontres d’Arles, église les Trinitaires

2020 La Mémoire des roches, L’Imagerie de Lannion

2020 Une certaine scène française, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris

2019 Taharqa et la nuit, Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire et Institut français de Khartoum, Soudan

2018 Les Portes de glace et Nuits étoilées, Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire

2017 Les Nocturnes, Nouveau Prix Découverte, Les Rencontres d’Arles

2017 Les Éblouis, Maison de Chateaubriand, Week-end Intense du Mois de la Photo

2015 Obscura, Espace Saint-Cyprien, Toulouse

2015 Partie de campagne, Saint-Briac, Galerie Françoise Paviot

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Un autre monde, Juliette Agnel, Yannick Haenel, Jacques Aumont, éditions Maison CF, Paris, 2023

Silex, Léa Bismuth, éditions Maison CF, Paris, 2022

Aux étoiles le poids de la terre, éditions Contrejour, 2021

L’institut de la paléontologie humaine, éditions du Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Paris, 2021

L’invisible, éditions Isabelle Sauvage, 2020

Taharqa et la nuit, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019

50 ans de photographie française de 1970 à nos jours, Michel Poivert, éditions Textuel, Paris, 2019

La besogne des images, collectif, éditions Filigranes, Paris, 2019

Versailles Chantier, Juliette Agnel, Christiane Veschambre, éditions Isabelle Sauvage, 2014

D’un Espace l’Autre, ancien Collège des Jésuites, 2011

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