Agnès Thurnauer

Since the 1990s, she has been questioning the links between semantic matter, representation and space, integrating writing into her work through various media that probe its plasticity (painting, sculpture, collage, installations, etc.). She works in open-ended series, responding to one another, weaving together figures and abstraction, text and image, using her own techniques and modalities, in a highly performative relationship with the space of the painting.

His series Big-big and Bang-bang places us in a renewed presence before the works, his Life-size portraits question the place given to women artists in recent art history, her Peintures d’histoires weave together image and text, inviting a new reading of iconic paintings, her Prédelles offer the space of the painting to be read like an open book, its Matrix invites the body to confront and interact with the space of letters.
For Agnès Thurnauer, the relationship with the work always implies a form of reciprocity. Structuring most of her series, language is the backbone of her work, as it is the basis of the relationship with others, whether intimate or societal. If the work reads the world, it’s up to each of us to make our own reading of it. This shared language is at the heart of society, giving art a powerful poetic and political function.