On Friday 15th October NONverbal Art attended the first solo exhibition of Noemie Goudal at the Hotshoe Gallery entitled 'Les Amants' interpreted as 'The Lovers'
Her work is an emphasis of a 'pairing', embracing the tug-of-war or a disconnect of the natural occurrence of our worldly relationships replicating the ying and yang philosophy; for example fiction and reality
The portraits are described as part-real, part artificial scenes
So the part that is artificial is when you look at the photo inside you see a picture, which in fact has been enlarged on a wider scale and fragmented, with each segment having been re-assembled like a puzzle to form a life size representation of the initial picture
This backdrop (the puzzle) is then draped or hung in an environment created as a scenic extension to the original image, to make you believe there is only one reflection; this is the part that is real. The image being shown is called: Promenade
To quote an advocate attending the exhibition 'this is the new generation of photgraphy'
On the hand Noemie works with a large format camera, where you go underneath the black cloth (like an old studio camera)
The endearing part is Noemie is such a sweet, demure woman. Widely supported by her family, friends and peers who made her private viewing unforgettable; it was an amazing turnout at the Hotshoe Gallery
Her concepts are contemporary and progressive and there is fortitude and magnetism in the work of Noemie Goudal
www.noemiegoudal.com