Agnès Propeck abducts the viewer of her images into poetry by tearing the objects out of their everyday context, much as the poet disregards the dictionary definitions of words and thereby extends language. In well-structured mises-en-scènes she brings about surprising encounters that fire our imagination and our unconscious.

Yet these are anything but products of chance: each encounter, each installation, each shift of meaning represents the result of a long pro- cess, countless questions, and sometimes tormenting uncertainty. Today, however, the components of a mise-en-scène are no longer just objects, but also gestures, signs, symbols, games, adventure. And although her visual vocabulary is taken largely from familiar worlds - like, for example, the "objects" that once inspired the poet Francis Ponge - the stories that Agnès Propeck's images awaken in us are none the less sensitive (re-)views of childhood.
- Gabriel Bauret -

Nominated by Gabriel Bauret, independent curator, Paris.