User:Galerie Maubert/Agnès Geoffray

Agnès Geoffray, born in 1973 in Saint-Chamond, is a French visual artist. She mainly works in photography and writing. She lives and works in Paris and Brussels.

Biography
Agnès Geoffray graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1996 and in Paris in 1997.

In 2003-2003 she was in residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2010-2011, she is a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome.

Agnès Geoffray's work reveals a universe of latent and mysterious tensions. The notions of control, authority, domination and the resistance that faces them, occupy a central place in her research. At the crossroads of photography, printed arts, sculpture and installations, Agnès Geoffray elaborates or reactivates texts and images. As an iconographer, she explores images through staging, reappropriation or photographic associations, in order to question their evocative power and thus invite us to reconsider our memory.

In 2017, the solo show Before the eye-lid's laid at the CPIF, co-curated with Emil Sennewald, evokes "the notion of the stop, the suspension, the epoch in the interval before the eyelid is closed. It's a time to stop. An intermediate moment between object and image, vision and gaze. It is also a moment when one holds one's breath." ,

Personal exhibitions

 * Before the eye-lid's laid, 2017, CPIF, Pontault-Combault, F.
 * Failure Falling Figure, 2015, ISELP, Brussels, B.
 * La Chambre / Sleep Disorder, 2015, La chambre 11, Aubervilliers, F.
 * Les Heures grises, 2014, La Lettre volée, Brussels, B.
 * Distracted area, 2012, La Maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, F.
 * Victims, 2009, De Garage, Kunstcentrum, Mechelen, B.
 * Ultieme Hallucinatie, 2008, La Lettre volée, Brussels, B.
 * Crimes et délices, 2006, La BF15, Lyon, F.
 * Une méchanceté légendaire, 2005, La Lettre volée, Brussels, B.

Collective exhibitions (selection)

 * 2017 Rencontres de la photographie, Le spectre du surréalisme, Arles, F.
 * 2017 Frac Auvergne, Le Divan des murmures, Clermont-Ferrand, F.
 * 2017 Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Suspens et Syncope - N/Z, Aubervilliers, F.
 * 2016 Centre Pompidou Metz, Un musée imaginé, Metz, F.
 * 2016 Jeu de paume, Soulèvements, Paris, F.
 * 2016 Frac Auvergne, Retour au meilleur des mondes, Clermont-Ferrand, F.
 * 2016 CPIF, A fendre le cœur le plus dur, Pontault-Combault, F.
 * 2015 MAC VAL, Effet Vertigo, Vitry-sur-seine, F.
 * 2015 Fondation Entreprise Ricard, Poesie Plate-forme, Paris, F.
 * 2015 Musée de l’Élysée, Nominée Prix Élysée, Lausanne, CH.
 * 2015 Kunsthaus Zurich, Europe, l’avenir de l’histoire, Zurich, CH.
 * 2015 Frac Alsace, A fendre le cœur le plus dur, Sélestat, F.
 * 2014 La Maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Le Mur, Paris, F.
 * 2014 Kunsthalle Mainz, Les Gueules cassées, Mainz, D.
 * 2014 Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, A l'envers, à l'endroit, Pontault-Combault, F.
 * 2013 Kunsthalle Wien, Salon der Angst, Vienna, A.
 * 2013 CNAC Le Magasin, I lie to them, Grenoble, F.
 * 2013 Centre de la Photographie, False fakes, Genève, CH.
 * 2012 Festival Images, Vevey, CH.
 * 2012 Photographer’s Gallery, Shoot, Londres, GB.
 * 2011 Casino, Found in translation, Luxemburg, L.
 * 2011 Kunstveiren Heidelberg, FotoFestival, The eye is a lonely hunter, Heidelberg, D.
 * 2011 Kennedy Museum of Art, Phantoms, Shadows and Phenomena, Athens, États-Unis.
 * 2010 Witte de With, Morality, facts and fables, Rotterdam, NL.
 * 2010 Museum Fur Photographie, Shoot, Braunschweig, D.
 * 2010 Rencontres photographiques, Shoot, Arles, F.
 * 2010 Centre of Contemporary Art, Wach sind nur die Geister, Torun, PL.
 * 2010 Biennale Internationale de la Photographie, Out of control, Liège, B.


 * Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
 * Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
 * Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
 * Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
 * Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
 * FMAC Fonds municipal d'art contemporain, Paris, France
 * Collection départementale d'art contemporain de la Seine Saint-Denis, France

Monographic publications

 * Ultieme Hallucinatie, 2008, La Lettre Volée, Brussels
 * Profond silence, 2009, La Lettre Volée, Brussels
 * Les Captives, 2015, Édition La Lettre volée, Brussels
 * Before the eye-lid's laid, 2017, Édition La Lettre volée, Brussels

Extern links

 * Personal website
 * Galerie Maubert : https://galeriemaubert.com/artistes/agnes-geoffray/
 * Article d'Étienne Hatt, Art Press 448 octobre 2017
 * Article d'Étienne Hatt, Art Press 448 octobre 2017