Noémie Goudal explores the successive constructions of our world while playing on those of the image. With elegant visual montages, she allows us to imagine the permanence of an earthly movement. An exhibition to see at the Grand Café, contemporary art center in Saint-Nazaire.
A stone’s throw from the Atlantic, two streets from a wide beach bathed by the autumn sun, is “Post Atlantica”, an exhibition tribute to the incredible transformation of the Earth which has made from a continent in the past, the Atlantic, the ocean we know today. How did it go from land to sea as far as the eye can see?
It is the history of the planet, 4.5 billion years old and that makes us relativize the place of humanity, which is only one big paragraph in a 1000 page book. “This idea of long time interests me a lot,” explains Noémie Goudal, “it is not at all a sense of time for us humans. We live on the scale of a second, an hour, a year. This is where I find there is a very interesting time lag between that time and the time of Earth. The metamorphosis of very old materials, for example, such as coal, uranium, which suddenly become materials exploited by humans … “.
