Juliette Agnel

Artist photographer Juliette Agnel's practice revolves around the exploration of the sensitive and the invisible within landscapes. After graduating with a Master's degree in Plastic Arts and Ethno-Aesthetics in 1997, she went on to study chemical techniques and processes at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, before setting up her own digital camera obscura in 2011.

Guided by her intuition, her work is enriched by her many travels: she criss-crosses Norway, Iceland, Korea and Dogon country in search of aesthetic and sensory experiences. Discovering territories marked by the imprint of man and telluric forcesAgnel strives to convey her sensations of the landscapes she explores, using a singular framing and photographic process.

In his series Nocturnesbegun in 2016, Agnel's photographs are like temporal rifts: shots of starry skies are superimposed on daytime shotscapturing natural and archaeological landscapes. His approach aims to capture the image perceived by the human eye while revealing the invisibleThis is the common thread running through his 2019 odyssey from Khartoum to northern Sudan.

Travelling through the Sudanese desert for seven nights and seven days, Agnel saw the archaeological remains gradually reveal themselves under her lens. After a period of total immersion, photographing dunes and starry skies, she reached the Temple of Amon temple of Amon, then the pyramid of Meroe, an ancient Nubian city whose strange familiarity marked the high point of her journey. Beyond the perils she faced and the physical ordeal, this exploration gave Agnel the opportunity to experience a form of transcendence. She transcribed this extraordinary experience in her nocturnal prints entitled Taharqa and the Nightwhich capture the essence of an inner and outer journey.

Today represented by the galerie Clémentine de la Ferronnièreher series was exhibited at the Van Gogh Foundation in Arles during the "Van Gogh et les étoiles" exhibition.