{"id":22279,"date":"2022-08-03T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/?page_id=22279"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:34:28","slug":"agnes-geoffray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/agnes-geoffray\/","title":{"rendered":"Agn\u00e8s Geoffray in collaboration with Vanessa Desclaux- They stray, They persist, They thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a9 Agne\u0300s Geoffray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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LOCATION<\/strong>: The prison at Landskrona Citadel. MAP<\/strong> <\/a> . Buy\u00a0festival tickets<\/strong><\/a>. Opening hours:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday 4 September<\/strong>\u00a012:00\u201321:00 \/\u00a0Saturday 5 September<\/strong>\u00a011:00\u201320:00 \/\u00a0Sunday 6 September<\/strong>\u00a011:00\u201317:00 \/\u00a07\u201320 September<\/strong>\u00a0Daily 12:00\u201317:00<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Agn\u00e8s Geoffray\u2019s work combines staged photography and text to explore gestures of resistance\u2014defiance, escape, and endurance\u2014in the face of confinement.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Her images depict fictional female figures confronting or fleeing oppressive structures, while texts presented through projection or sound restore voices largely absent from official archives, particularly those of incarcerated young women. Together, image and text position writing as a form of emancipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developed in collaboration with curator Vanessa Desclaux, the exhibition creates a dialogue between photographic, poetic, and archival materials. Historical documents from France and Sweden are shown alongside Geoffray\u2019s works, highlighting the gap between institutional records and lived experience, and reflecting on how histories are constructed and whose perspectives are excluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented within the Landskrona Citadel, the exhibition takes on a site-specific dimension. The citadel once housed a forced labour institution for women imprisoned under the Vagrancy Act. Archival records reveal acts of resistance\u2014escapes, protests, and conflicts with staff\u2014often met with harsh punishment. Installed within the former prison cells, Geoffray\u2019s photographs resonate with this history, allowing her fictional figures to inhabit and reactivate the space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition also builds on research into French \u201cpreservation schools,\u201d where girls deemed \u201cdeviant\u201d were confined for behaviour that challenged social norms. Existing during the same period as the forced labour system for women in Landskrona, these institutions reveal parallel structures of control in France and Sweden. By placing these histories side by side, the exhibition reflects on mechanisms of confinement and moral regulation from both a poetic and political contemporary perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An exhibition of works by Agn\u00e8s Geoffray conceived in collaboration with Vanessa Desclaux <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curators: Vanessa Desclaux and Inga Linn H\u00e4rdelin <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition was initially produced by les Rencontres d\u2019Arles, France and Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Switzerland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Agn\u00e8s Geoffray is a French artist whose work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Rencontres d\u2019Arles, Bozar in Brussels, Kunsthalle Wien, Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, Witte de With in Rotterdam, Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Elys\u00e9e in Lausanne, Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, and MAC VAL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her works are included in several major public and private collections, including Centre Pompidou, CNAP, and MAC VAL. Several publications on her work have been released, most recently they stray they persist they thunder (\u00c9ditions Textuel, 2025), produced in conjunction with Rencontres d\u2019Arles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: \u00a9 Sebastien Reuze<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Vanessa\u202fDesclaux\u202fis an independent curator and researcher. Until 2023, she was responsible for outreach and cultural programme at the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MECA in Bordeaux. She was a teacher in art history at the academy of Dijon from 2011 to 2019 and acquired a PhD in Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Previously she has worked at Tate Modern and at Bloomberg Space in London and she collaborated with many institutions including De Appel (Amsterdam), Le Frac Bourgogne (Dijon), La Galerie (Centre d\u2019art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec) or Le Grand Palais in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: \u00a9 Agn\u00e8s Geoffray<\/p>\n<\/div>

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This project has been certified by the French Ministry of Culture as part of the Bicentennial of Photography<\/em> and is included in the official anniversary program from September 1, 2026, to September 30, 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of Institut fran\u00e7ais<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LOCATION: The prison at Landskrona Citadel. MAP . Buy\u00a0festival tickets. Opening hours:\u00a0Friday 4 September\u00a012:00\u201321:00 \/\u00a0Saturday 5 September\u00a011:00\u201320:00 \/\u00a0Sunday 6 September\u00a011:00\u201317:00 \/\u00a07\u201320 September\u00a0Daily 12:00\u201317:00 Agn\u00e8s Geoffray\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","excerpt","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22279"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30455,"href":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22279\/revisions\/30455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}