Agathe Rosa
Annecy, 1987
Agathe Rosa explores the relationship between natural light, living beings, and territories. By questioning the potential of “luminous matter,” she draws on cognitive processes — perception, sensation, memory, and representation — to challenge our experience of space and time.
Through photography, drawing, sculpture, installation, sound, video, and textiles, she creates poetic systems in which matter becomes movement and light reveals the fragile, subtle architecture of reality.
Her works make visible the invisible forces that shape our world: air, light, silence, and movement. Time slows down, space expands, and the infinite emerges from the ordinary. Her practice invites a contemplative and sensorial experience, resonating with contemporary ecological and philosophical concerns.
After graduating with honors from the National School of Architecture of Marseille in 2011, she left construction to transform the concrete into the ephemeral.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as the Italian Cultural Institute, Marseille — on the occasion of Manifesta 13; CNES–La Chartreuse, Avignon; Museo Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Santa Maria della Scala, Siena; and Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Raffaele De Grada, San Gimignano.
For ten years, she also taught Representation Techniques and Visual Arts at ENSA Marseille, while participating in numerous seminars bridging art and architecture.
STATEMENT
ARAGUAR arose in a dream. From its fiery letters, this word opened the doors to a world whose existence I suspected but which was still impenetrable to me. Secret connections were revealed, passages opened.
Our environment is a living organism with which we can interact. In order to allow the elements to speak, we must listen to them: we must put ourselves on their scale and review our relationship to time and space. Two conditions are then essential: a slowing down of time to accommodate contemplation, and the engagement of all senses and the body to immerse oneself and resonate. All this must be done with the utmost care and respect because we are about to touch the most precious things that constitute our reality.