Noémie Goudal

Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in Photography and lives and works between Paris and London. Noémie Goudal’s practice is an investigation into photographs and films as dialectical images, wherein close proximities of truth and fiction, real and imagined offer new perspectives into the photographic canvas. The artist questions the potential of the image as a whole, reconstructing its layers and possibilities of extension, through landscapes’ installations.

Her series ‘Observatories’ is images of German artists Bernd et Hilla Becher, whose interest is focused on industrial buildings with objective black and white photographs. Noémie Goudal’s work shows utopian architectures without spaces nor time. It’s an encounter between realistic documentary images and dreamy illusion. She has used methods that blend traditional photographic technique with physical manipulation to create imagined architecture made with paper and scotch in real landscapes.