To coincide with her exhibition The Story of Fixity, presented at Le Portique – Centre régional d'art contemporain du Havre until September 27, 2026, Noémie Goudal looks back on her artistic approach in a video produced as part of the series Impressions d'artistes.
French contemporary artist Noémie Goudal has been developing a body of work for several years that lies at the intersection of photography, installation, and scenography. Her work is based on the creation of sets inspired by natural landscapes, which she stages before photographing them. Through these installations, she composes images where reality and imagination intertwine, inviting the viewer to question what they see and how they construct their perception of the world.
Invited to Le Portique, the artist continues her research into the representation of nature and the history of landscape with The Story of Fixity . The exhibition explores the various ways in which landscape has been observed, interpreted, and depicted throughout the centuries. From Antiquity to the industrial age, culminating in the Impressionist landscapes of Claude Monet, Noémie Goudal examines the frameworks of thought and visual conventions that shape our perception.
In this video, Noémie Goudal presents the challenges of her work and looks back at the research that informed the design of The Story of Fixity, an exhibition that echoes the questions raised by the Normandie Impressionniste festival around the gaze, the representation and the transformation of landscapes.
