Iris Garagnoux was born in Paris and is currently living and working in London. She graduated from her Master’s degree at the Chelsea College of Arts in 2021. She has soon after had her first solo show ‘Choreographic Sequence’ in Cork Street in London. In May 2025, she presented her second solo show at Atmosphere Gallery in Nanjing in China.Other selected shows she participated in are ‘Fragmented Wholeness’ curated by LATAMesa at Mucciaccia Gallery ; ‘Pourquoi london?’ curated by Gertrude and Canopy Collection ; ‘Faire histoire’ held in H Galerie, Paris, France; ‘London Grads NOW’ held at Saatchi Gallery in London; TATE Britain’s TATE Lates ‘Constructing Landscapes’, virtual show; and more. The artist has been recently featured in W Magazine, ‘Abstract Art by Women’ by Alex Needham; Point contemporain ‘Faire Histoire’ by Valérie Toubas and Daniel Guionnet, ‘Body E(Motions)’, online magazine, and News & Events, Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
Iris Garagnoux practice is focused on the plasticity of the human body, which is torn between a deep desire to reconnect with nature but also evolving with new technologies. Painting on the floor allows the artist to create a repertoire of instinctive gestures, inspired by her experience in gymnastics and trance, which then she transcribes into sculptural and performative fragments such as haptic and immersive extensions. By layering organic and synthetic elements, new semiotic colours and textures appear considering the contemporary societal relationships and the tension between the living and the non living. By exploring Deleuze and Guattari’s concept «Un corps sans organe» (A body without Organs), she seeks to make visible an organic interiority which is never fixed reflecting transgenerational legacies and contemporary human conditions. Garagnoux is interested in transcribing states of in-betweenness, vulnerability, and corporal energetic fluids, emanating from the physical and intangible worlds.
