Iris Garagnoux
Iris Garagnoux is a French visual artist based in London. In 2021, her first solo show Choreographic Sequences, curated by Nayrouz Tatanaki, was presented in a Pop up Gallery in Cork Street, London. More recently, Garagnoux’s work has been exhibited within group shows in London, Paris and Shanghai, including Saatchi Gallery, Tate Britain Website and H Galerie.
Iris Garagnoux’s practice today is focused on the plasticity of the human body, which is torn between a deep desire to reconnect with nature but also evolving with new technologies. Painting allows the artist to create a repertoire of organic gestures, which then she transcribe into sculptural and performative fragments such as body extensions getting closer to the viewer. By layering organic and synthetic elements, new semiotic colours and textures appear considering societal relationships and the tension between the living and the non-living.
By exploring Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept «Un corps sans organe» (A body without Organs), Garagnoux seeks to make visible an organic interiority which is never fixed and without a proper organization. She tries to transcribe states of in-betweenness, vulnerability, and corporal energetic fluids, emanating from the physical and unseen worlds.
Born 1995 in Paris, France
Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2021 MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London
2019 DNA in Fine Art, Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse (ISDAT), Toulouse, France
2015 Foundation year in Art, Atelier de Sèvres, Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Pop Up Gallery Cork Street, Choreographic Sequence, Curated by Nayrouz Tatanaki, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Faire Histoire, H Galerie, Curated by Point Contemporain, Paris, France
Altered Planes, Metre Squared, Curated by Eva Bra Barkardottir, London, UK
2022 TransLucid, Galerie du Crous, Curated by Alexis Sarfati and Iris Gragnoux, Paris, France
Up to the ground, Pop up Gallery Dean Street, Curated by Hao Long and Mireia Carbonnell, London, UK
2021 Together Alone, Hamstead Heath, Curated by Nadia Berry, London, UK
Extravagants, Le Bon Marché, Curated by Alix Bortoli and Iris Garagnoux, Paris, France
Amniotic Disorder, Triangle Space, Curated by Iris Garagnoux, London, UK
2020 London Grands NOW, Saatchi Gallery, Curated by Juan Bolivar, London, UK
TATE Late ‘Constructing Landscapes, TATE Britain, Virtual Show, London, UK
Healing through Art, Museum of Medical Sciences, Henan, China
Body(E)motions, Cookhouse Gallery, Curated by Alexis Sarfati and Clair Di Felici for Sotheby’s Art Institute
2019 Pour une peinture sans image, Galerie du Crous, Curated by Point Contemporain, Paris, France
The Dance of the Atoms, DOC!, Curated by Daiga Grantina, Paris, France
PUBLICATION
2023 British VOGUE, Online and printed magazine, ‘Vogue Gallery’.
W Magazine, Online magazine, ‘Abstract Art by Women’ by Alex Needham
2021 The Stack World, online magazine, ‘Where To Gallery-Hop Around London As Curated By The Coolest Women On The Art Scene’
Lymited, online magazine, ‘Iris Garagnoux explores the human species via Art’
BLUE Art advisory par Nayrouz Tatanaki, Website, ‘Women to watch in 2021’
2020 ‘Body E(Motions)’, online magazine, News & Events, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
2019 Magnin Wedry, Drouot, ‘ART CONTEMPORAIN, Paper magazine, Réalités imaginaires’
Point Contemporain, Paper and online magazine, ‘Portrait d’artiste’
Galeries & Musées, Paper magazine, ‘Vu pour vous dans les galeries’, Art galleries market
