ANIMA, Noémie Goudal and Maëlle Poésy, 2022 © Christoph Raynaud de Lage.
Tuesday 27 June at 7pm | We are thrilled to announce Tate Modern's presentation of artist Noémie Goudal and director Maëlle Poésy's acclaimed multimedia performance ANIMA, previously presented at Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2023) and Collection Lambert (Avignon, 2022).
Featuring large-scale moving-image projections, suspension performances and kinetic installation, ANIMA conveys the physical sensation of time, considering the landscape from a perspective of perpetual evolution across millions of years. The performance is the latest work in Goudal’s expansive series Post Atlantica, first presented at Edel Assanti in 2022, examining our planet’s temporal and geographic strata while drawing inspiration from the scientific research in paleoclimatology.
The piece comprises photographic and film interventions by Goudal with music by composer Chloé Thévenin and a live performance by Chloé Moglia, whose research focuses on the concept of suspension and weightlessness.
As Noémie Goudal and Maëlle Poésy noted, “Both of us really wanted to work on the question of metamorphosis. By trying to have a poetic and sensitive perception of the past, we also wanted to ask a poetic and sensitive question of our future.”
Performance dates:
12 July 2023 at 21.30–22.50
13 July 2023 at 21.30–22.50
About Noémie Goudal
Noémie Goudal (b.1984) graduated from the Royal College of Art (UK) in 2010 with an MA in Photography. In 2023, Goudal will present ANIMA internationally, at institutions including, Centre Pompidou, France and Tate Modern, UK. Solo exhibitions include 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 (forthcoming); 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; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India and The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK. Noémie Goudal lives and works in Paris.
