ADÉLAÏDE GAUDÉCHOUX

Based in Nantes, where she lives and works, Adélaïde Gaudéchoux graduated from the Nantes School of Fine Arts in 2004. Her artistic journey has been enriched by experiences in the restoration of historic monuments and the creation of sets for the opera.
Her artistic approach revolves around vision as an optical phenomenon and memory, whether personal or collective. Light plays a central role in her work: it is an element of transformation that she employs in her paintings and installations. She uses light to reveal, to make things appear or disappear. Her pictorial work engages in a dialogue with the photographic approach and its historical influence, particularly in the representation of archives, the sciences, and landscape. In her view, painting is a lengthy process that endows images with the potential for embodiment. Through the medium itself, she creates a physical connection with the representation, exploring the polysemy of painting and images.

Since 2020, Adélaïde Gaudéchoux has been collaborating with Nicolas Joubaud to develop the sound and visual textures of her immersive works. A publication by Grante Egle centered on her “Collection” series also gave the artist the opportunity to collaborate with Philippe Saulle on writing a work of fiction. Currently, Adélaïde Gaudéchoux is developing a research project on the memory of gestures with dancer and performer Matthieu Blond.
Adélaïde Gaudéchoux has held solo exhibitions at Labanque in Béthune, Stereolux in Nantes, as well as in Sète, Saint-Nazaire, and La Rochelle, while also participating in numerous group exhibitions.
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