2023-05-29 19:23:09
Composed of twelve professionals, the jury chaired by Héloïse Conesa, curator in charge of contemporary photography at the National Library of France, awarded Juliette Agnel the Niépce Gens d’images 2023 prize on Thursday, May 25.
The French photographer born in 1973 studied plastic arts and ethno-aesthetics at the University of Paris before joining the Beaux-Arts de Paris. A meeting with Jean Rouch takes her on the roads of Africa where she will work for more than ten years. She continues her research on extreme landscapes and natural forces in Andalusia, Sudan, Morocco, Greenland and recently in the prehistoric caves of Arcy-sur-Cure in Yonne. This latest series, titled The hand of the child will be exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles from July 3 to September 24, 2023.
A first retrospective monograph of his work
His candidacy was presented by the gallery owner Françoise Paviot who underlines: “Faced with the immensity of nature, Juliette Agnel never ceases to question her emotions but while giving us the possibility, to us too, to question ourselves on the foundations of our humanity. If the photographic medium has the possibility of expressing a temporality, she uses it to give the plasticity of her images a duration that makes us feel and understand these extremes that have lived in us since the dawn of time. The chromatic invoice of his photographs, their grain, their light results from a complex work, sometimes also primitive, but always attentive to what makes the material itself. »
“The art that touches me is due to this relationship between the real and the invisible, to these forces that surround us but that we do not see. It is an authorization to believe in an absolute. In Greenland, in Sudan, in the Dogon country or in Finistère, it is the same quest that I tirelessly pursue: to grasp what unites us in depth, recalling that the human body is a significant fragment of the cosmos.specifies the artist represented by the Clémentine de la Féronnière gallery in Paris, whose publishing house will publish “Un Autre Monde” a first retrospective monograph of his work in June.
Exhibition at the BnF
As part of the Niépce Gens d’Image prize, an exhibition is scheduled at the National Library of France François Mitterrand, from December 2023 to February 2024, then at the Jeu de Paume Tours in summer 2024 before winning the picture rails of the Dityvon Gallery – University d’Angers, from January to March 2025. The artist also receives an endowment of €15,000 from the ADAGP and PICTO Foundation.
Created in 1955 by Albert Plécy, the Prix Niépce Gens d’images is the first prize for professional photography launched in France. Each year, it distinguishes the work of a confirmed photographer, aged under 50, French or resident in France for more than three years. It is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the National Library of France.
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