Agnès Geoffray

Agnès Geoffray is a French artist, born in Saint-Chamond in 1973, currently living and working in Paris. She is a graduate of the Lyon and Paris national fine arts schools. Working with assemblage and collage techniques her work challenges our understanding of reality, and she fully exploits the storytelling potential of multiple representations of the truth within an image. Through her process, she reveals a complex universe of latent and mysterious tensions within a photograph.

Agnès Geoffray has held residencies in Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2002-2003) and the Villa Médicis, Rome (French Academy, 2010-2011). She has most recently exhibited at the Kunsthalle Mainz, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Magasin in Grenoble, the Centre de la photographie in Geneva and the Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France. Her works are in the public collections of the Fonds national d’art contemporain (Paris) and various private collections. Two books on her work have been published by La Lettre Volée: Ultieme Hallucinatie and Profond silence.