Agathe Rosa

Agathe Rosa is particularly interested in the interaction between natural light, human beings and territories. By exploring the abilities of this “luminous matter”, she uses cognitive processes (perception, sensation, memory, representation) and questions our understanding of the solidity of things. For it is at the moment when matter becomes movement and an interaction of forces that one is able to examine what remains invisible to the eye. Agathe Rosa’s creative process is generally initiated by an intuitive and foundational photographic act from which the entire work can unfurl, from immersive site-specific installations to drawing, and from assemblages of objects to video to writing. She pays particular attention to the notion of interval – a vacillating space and reverberation chamber in which reality is transfigured, in which insignificant passages and mysterious connections between each entity are created. This is how her work allows for physical laws to be broken, for vertigo to seize us, for scales to be exceeded, with time becoming matter and light becoming the main protagonist of this cosmogony.