Juliette Agnel

The nocturnal breaths of the canal

Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse and the Maison du Port are pleased to present the exhibition ‘Les souffles nocturnes du canal’ by Juliette Agnel, as part of the programme, the Mission Mécénat de VNF ‘Replantons le canal du Midi’ and the Commune de la Redorte.

The artist Juliette Agnel is presenting a new series of photographs created following a residency on board the Canal du Midi in spring 2025, at the invitation of VNF's Mission Mécénat. When Juliette Agnel photographs natural spaces, it is the invisible that she seeks to bring to the fore: the emotions that run through us when faced with a landscape, or the imperceptible forces that animate nature. ‘Through her work, she tries to convey what is in the realm of feeling and interiority. There is no photographic truth in her images. The calm that emerges from them is the most concrete example of this; they are a time machine, which also bear the imprint of an ecological evidence.

Coproduction: les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, VNF's Mission Mécénat ‘Replantons le canal du Midi’ and the Commune de la Redorte

Curators: François Cholet and Emmanuelle Hamon