Noémie Goudal

‘Post Atlantica’

Frieze Seoul x Breguet

Curated by Jenn Ellis

Exhibition Sep 4 – 7, 2024. COEX, 513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea.

Noémie Goudal, installation view, Frieze x Breguet, Seoul, South Korea, 2024. Courtesy of Breguet.

We are delighted to share that Jenn Ellis has been appointed the Frieze and Breguet curator for 2024-5.

Jenn Ellis will be curating a series of projects—one at each fair in New York, Seoul, London, and LA—rooted in emotion and evolutionary change. Each project is conceived as a chapter, linking global perspectives, and blending science, art, literature, and mechanics to craft four succinct and delicately poignant polyglot experiences. The second exhibition, entitled Post Atlantica, Noémie Goudal’s latest and most significant multi-chapter body of work, unravels an artistic dialogue with the field of paleoclimatology, analysing climate and geology from the vantage point of “deep time” to acquire an understanding of our planet’s trajectory. Measured in millions of years, this timescale reveals geographies of landscapes to be momentary states in a cycle of continuous flux. “Atlantica” was the ancient continent that formed during the Proterozoic, approximately two billion years ago, which has since separated to form West Africa and eastern South America.

The second of four chapters curated by Jenn Ellis exploring the overarching theme of ‘evolutionary change’, Goudal’s presentation at Frieze Seoul premieres a newly commissioned film, as well as three photographs. Following her group exhibition at the Sungkok Museum and prior to her solo exhibition at the Pompidou, Paris, this chapter explores how Goudal’s practice involves the construction of ambitious staged, illusionistic installations within the landscape, documented using film and photography. Drawing parallels with Breguet’s historical emphasis on research, globality and meticulous craftsmanship, Goudal’s interventions are underpinned by rigorous research examining the intersection of ecology and anthropology, interrogating the limitations of theoretical conceptions of the natural world.

Ultimately, Goudal’s films, photographs and immersive installation reflect the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman life by depicting diverse landscapes, such as lush vegetation, rocky coastlines, snow-capped mountains, and swamplands. These works emphasize the vastness of space and time and explore non-anthropocentric modes of belonging.

Noémie Goudal, installation view, Frieze x Breguet, Seoul, South Korea, 2024. Courtesy of Breguet.

Noémie Goudal, installation view, Frieze x Breguet, Seoul, South Korea, 2024. Courtesy of Breguet.

Noémie Goudal, installation view, Frieze x Breguet, Seoul, South Korea, 2024. Courtesy of Breguet.

Noémie Goudal in her studio. Photography by Cedrine Scheidig. Cortesy of Edel Essanti.

Noémie Goudal (b.1984) graduated from the Royal College of Art (UK) in 2010 with an MA in Photography. She is currently shortlisted for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024. Solo exhibitions include Mostyn, Llandudno, UK (2024); FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2024); ANIMA, Tate Modern, London, UK; Venice Theatre Biennale, Venice, Italy and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2023); Post Atlantica, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France (2022); ANIMA, Festival d’Avignon, Avignon, France (2022); Décantations, La Vitrine, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, France (2022); Post Atlantica, Le Grand Café Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France (2021); Echos toujours plus sourds, Musée Delacroix, Paris, France (2021); Observatorium, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany (2019); Telluris, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia (2019); Telluris, Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Le Locle, Switzerland (2019); Stations, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland (2018); Southern Light Stations, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2016); The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Second Nature: Photography at the Age of the Anthropocene, Nasher Museum, Durham, NC, USA (2024-2026); Un Manifeste du regard sur la Nouvelle Aquitaine, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine La MÉCA, Bordeaux, France (2024); New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA (2024); PHOTO 24, Melbourne Photo Biennale, Melbourne, Australia (2024); Bella Vista, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Sant-Nazaire, France (2021); Accelerate Your Escape: Gary Hume Explores the Hiscox Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2020); Inner Space, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); MELTDOWN: A Visualization of Climate Change, Horniman Museum, London, UK (2019). Goudal’s work is held in public collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK; FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK and The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK. Noémie Goudal lives and works in Paris.