NOÉMIE GOUDAL

http://www.noemiegoudal.com

NOÉMIE GOUDAL is a French fine art photographer who originally studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins, London and then after studied photography at Royal College of Art where she graduated with distinction. A lot of Goudal's work involves landscape and presenting it in an abstract way in a studio environment, a 'unnatural' landscape if you will. Quite a bit of Goudal's work involves large scale prints of landscape scenes hung up in a studio and then parts of that landscape brought into the studio and set up in front of the print so that it looks like a continuous image, except the obvious border around the print and props where it lets you see that everything is in an indoor environment. I find the work to be quite unique and works very well, some works are better suited and better executed than others, but all are high quality and well thought out, they are quite inspirational.

Goudal has had commissions for her work, but the majority seems to be exhibited all across Europe and in the USA. Goudal has picked up many awards for her work including D&AD, Student of the year and Leica Prize, shortlisted for the Exhibition, amongst several others of note.

Goudal's work is quite abstract, quite traditional in the fine art scene, but stands out from the rest, for me at least. Her work portrays crafted dream like scenes that show landscape and studio skills combined. I find her work to be quite inspirational, particularly with this project I'm currently doing as it provides another method of presenting an abstract, unnatural landscape (placing the landscape away from its natural place, and presenting it in the abstract way). The aesthetic of looking at a print portraying a room with another print inside gives the feeling of glancing through several windows into a completely different world, you see the print, and then the room (our world) and then you see the hung print (the other world), this is what gives the images a dream like quality about them, perhaps it will be reiterated when seeing the prints themselves. The glimpse of the studio or building is what anchors the viewer to thinking that the room is the real, and the print is a portal to another world, making the abstract image.

Goudal has her work printed quite large when exhibited so that all detail within the scene can be seen, from looking at the images on her website the prints are quite impressive.  

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