In Episode 3 of the ArtReview Podcast, Noémie Goudal speaks with editor JJ Charlesworth on The Story of Fixity – her immersive three-channel installation with Artangel (November 2025 – January 2026) – where illusionistic interventions in the landscape reconstruct before viewers’ eyes, challenging the illusion that the natural world is stable or fixed.
Drawing on devices such as one-point perspective, stereoscopic imagery and a process of bricolage, Goudal unpicks how we’re conditioned to read truth in images and question the very idea of the ‘immersive’. Running alongside it, her exhibition And yet it still moves at Edel Assanti (October – December 2025) expanded this enquiry – bringing ‘deep time’ into the gallery through constructed environments underpinned by rigorous research examining the intersection of ecology and anthropology and the limitations of theoretical conceptions of the natural world.
As part of the conversation, Goudal selects three works that trace the evolution of her practice: Anne Hardy’s ‘Lumber’ (2003), her own photograph ‘Les Amants (Cascades)’ (2009) and Rei Naito’s ‘Matrix’ (2010).
