• Sustain Exhibition & Award 2010

    Noemie Goudal (MA Photography, 2010)

  • Les Amants (Promenade), Noemie Goudal, 111 x 140 cm, Colour photograph
    Les Amants (Promenade), Noemie Goudal, 111 x 140 cm, Colour photograph
      • Les Amants (Chaleur), Noemie Goudal. Click to enlarge.

        Les Amants (Chaleur), Noemie Goudal

      • Les Amants (Cascade), Noemie Goudal. Click to enlarge.

        Les Amants (Cascade), Noemie Goudal

      • Les Amants (Untitled), Noemie Goudal. Click to enlarge.

        Les Amants (Untitled), Noemie Goudal

      • Les Amants (Filet), Noemie Goudal. Click to enlarge.

        Les Amants (Filet), Noemie Goudal

      • Les Amants (Untitled), Noemie Goudal. Click to enlarge.

        Les Amants (Untitled), Noemie Goudal

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  • Noemie Goudal’s work explores the relationship of man to the environment, our use and misuse of materials (the tension between the perceived natural beauty of the image of a forest waterfall and the gradual realisation that the image is not as idyllic as it first appears), and the impulses that can lead both to creation and destruction.

    The main theme explored in my project Les Amants (The Lovers) is the invasion of man-made elements into organic landscapes: a topic that raises obvious environmental questions such as the passionate relationship that societies maintain with the world they live in, their desperate need of exploration and expansion. Would it not be the excessive passion of their build that led to its own destruction? They are like lovers, lovers of the ground.

    They loved it so much that they consumed it all at once. Then left.  After the passage of passionate lovers, there are traces; remains of a past time that recount impulse and desire. After the passage of passionate societies, there are relics of paradise that offer fictional fantasies and alternative worlds. After the passage of passionate destructions, there are frail vestiges that after time inevitably remarry and rebuild new lands…