‘Tilt’ exhibition to open at The Dock

The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon has announced that Noémie Goudal’s first solo exhibition in Ireland, will open across three galleries on Saturday, May 10th at 2 p.m..

The exhibition, titled Tilt, will feature new and existing works, spanning sculpture, film and photography, following her nomination for the 2024 Prix Marcel Duchamp.

Noémie Goudal constructs illusionistic interventions in the landscape, captured through photography, film and sound. Deploying scenography and staging devices, she expands photography beyond its conventional parameters into immersive installations, informed by her interest in paleoclimatology. While human temporality does not align with the deep time of geological processes, she seeks to visualise the effort that goes into making the landscape.

Created for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, Supra Strata (2024) is a single channel film projecting a flourishing ecosystem dissolving in an acid storm. The artist leaves visual clues or 'flaws' for the viewer that signal the trompe l’oeil construction; she does not use software to manipulate the image, but prefers physical, artisanal methods that play on perspectives. While Goudal’s work retraces the evolution of the landscape without humans, here her motivation shifts from the study of ancient climates to the discovery and formal classification of plastic, or ‘plastiglomerate’, among sedimentary rocks. Over the course of the film, her construction is revealed — a dazzling tragedy of the landscape.

Goudal’s Terrella sculptures (2023) draw on the history of Earth sciences and on significant theories about the Earth’s formation, from antiquity to the present day.

Finally, Rocks (2024) is a meditation on the vast timescales embedded in rock formations, highlighting the imperceptible processes that shape landscapes, from tectonic pressure to sedimentation.

Tilt is curated by Mary Conlon and Linda Shevlin.. Book online 24/7 at www.thedock.ie