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  • On view from 2 December 2025 to 2 March 2026, The Window presents Inhale/Exhale (2021), a moving-image environment by French artist Noémie Goudal. The work interrogates the illusion of natural stability, revealing the Earth as a site of perpetual transformation. A seemingly serene landscape is gradually unsettled as large-scale backdrops rise from the water, each printed with vegetation imagery drawn from Goudal’s archive. These backdrops, simultaneously familiar and uncanny, evoke the aesthetics of glitch culture, where imperfections and digital artifacts reveal the constructed nature of images. The tranquil jungle scene transforms into one of subtle tension, prompting viewers to reconsider the boundaries between the natural and the technological.

    Rooted in research on the last Ice Age and speculative human migrations across the frozen Bering Sea, Inhale/Exhale collapses geological epochs, ancient climates, and human passageways into a single frame. By foregrounding the interplay of analogue landscapes with digitally mediated disruptions, the installation meditates on time, climate change, and the Earth’s continual metamorphosis, offering a nuanced reflection on our interconnectedness with the planet.
     
    Accessible 24 hours a day at the ground floor of the Time & Life building on Bruton Street, The Window is a public art initiative presented by CHANEL Culture Fund. Dedicated to showcasing contemporary digital art, The Window creates access to cutting-edge artworks by artists exploring the breadth of today’s digital technologies. Goudal’s Inhale/Exhale follows presentations by Refik Anadol, LuYang, Sarah Meyohas, Universal Everything, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Cao Fei, Petra Cortright, Jacolby Satterwhite, CrossLucid, Cecilia Bengolea, and, most recently, Shahzia Sikander.
     
    Noémie Goudal (b. 1984, Paris, FR) is celebrated for her illusionistic installations that explore natural environments through film, performance, and photography. Her practice is grounded in rigorous research at the intersection of ecology and anthropology. Goudal describes her work as a fascination with the construction of images—exploring what can exist within them—positioning her art at the boundary between fiction and reality. In Inhale/Exhale, this approach is amplified through the lens of digital mediation and glitch aesthetics, transforming complex concepts into immersive sensory experiences where the imperfections of technology illuminate the instability of nature itself.
     
    Goudal has exhibited extensively at leading international institutions, including Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Les Rencontres d’Arles, France; The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; and The Photographers’ Gallery, London. She has also participated in significant group exhibitions and biennials, including the Venice Theatre Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Melbourne Photo Biennale (PHOTO), Nasher Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Goudal was shortlisted for the 2024 Prix Marcel Duchamp.