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Work
EN Largely inspired by The Defaming Portrait and by the hung man's figure, the series Les Suspendus uses assemblage and montage to rephrase a new reality, which combines two images in a series of several diptychs. Agnès Geoffray interrogates the fictional power of imagery through her own staging...
EN The photograph collection Incidental Gestures stems from loss, lack and absence. This photo series is based on the reappropriation of archival images, which Agnès Geoffray manipulated in order to give a different reality. Images in this series are retouched, falsified and reinvented. Thus, the...
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In recent years Agnes Geoffray has created a series of highly charged nocturnal photographs, which are impregnated with evocative power and conjure dark associations. In these, time, place and circumstance are not indicated but left open to hypothesis. Permeated by a deep sense of...
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Tuesday 23rd August
The disappearances
Lucie, 10.16, Foubre
Alice, 19.20, Redou
Jeanne, 11.10, Valdor
Anne Laure, 13.53, Fontenelle
Esther, 10.47, Ponthes
Delphine, 9.53, Therry...
The inhabitants of the region of Valdor are panic-stricken. The list of...
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Paul Sant was found dead in his home, slumped on his hallwayfloor. He had died from a gunshot wound to his left eye. The murderer seems to have shot th rough the peephole in the front door. Everything suggests that Paul Sant was mistaken for a namesake.
The optogram also known...
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Paul Sant was found dead in his home, slumped on his hallway floor.
He had died from a gunshot wound to his left eye.
The murderer seems to have shot through the peephole in the front door.
Everything suggests that Paul Sant was mistaken for a namesake.
She had...
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unlookable trash
if he gets me he hide me, if he hides me I go crazy
don't look at me, don't look anybody
even with my back to you I can always feel the weight of your gaze
you are a monster and nobody can ever look you in the face
as long as I don't...
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Every night I am locked in a box. Full of blue fluroescent tubes. I spent half of my
life lying in this box. The light runs across my body, not one bit is left unexposed.
Everything must be blue. It is the requirement of my survival. No blue light, no life.
I am yellow. A rare...
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It was bending, twisting, crawling so that it could free itself from the hold. It was
wriggling and jumping on itself, so eager was it to finally move. It was wildly swinging
backwards and forwards, without being able to stop. Eventually, it was coming out.
It was visible,...
Les enchantés, eleven songs based on nursery rhyme tunes, performance, 2006
text
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The enchanted ones
11 songs
I am presenting here short fictional stories inspired by daily news in the form of songs, very much in the style of popular songs of a bygone era, where news items were orally transmitted. The songs are short with a tormenting chorus and sung from the...
EN Two slide projectors running at different speeds. One of them is projecting subjects, the other one is projecting violent - sometimes absurd - acts, drawn from private lives, news media, social phenomena, and historical events. All these big and small stories that make up History get condensed...
EN Installation, words made of pins Starting from the vocabulary of concealment used by bureaucrats within totalitarian regimes, Agnès Geoffray introduces this representation of language. Words were used as instruments for camouflage in order to eradicate the facts. The work is presented as an...
ENG Sound installation: a loudspeaker is displayed in the form of a dark wooden cube, and broadcasts the voice of a man who recounts the story of a Hiroshima survivor. The sound is broadcast on a loop. Each time the speech begins, a violent light brightens the room and dims as the testimony...
Testimony, wooden speaker, sound installation with man's voice, the light decrease for the duration of sound, 35x35x35 cm, 2', loop, 2009
text
Hole, sound installation, 9'30", 2003
A girl tells her gruesome diary. The light environment decreases until the complete darkness.
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