BORN IN 1996 IN LA GARENNE-COLOMBES
LIVES AND WORKS IN LYON
A graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-La Villette and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Agathe Berthou develops an artistic practice based on subtle alterations of space. Her installations are fragile, sometimes suggestive, evoking the vulnerabilities and collapses of intimacy. Using organic materials such as dyed wool, lead, or wax, she tends to sculptural or architectural elements—healing cracks, filling voids—as if the building itself were a body in need of care and attention.
Animism, a belief system shared by many cultures, considers inanimate objects as living beings. Agathe Berthou’s works propose an animism of architecture, inviting us to change the way we look at our surroundings and, more broadly, the places we move through. She alters existing walls, invents fictional partitions, and imperceptibly transforms the spaces she inhabits until our perception of scale and spatial conventions begins to waver.
LIVES AND WORKS IN LYON
A graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-La Villette and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, Agathe Berthou develops an artistic practice based on subtle alterations of space. Her installations are fragile, sometimes suggestive, evoking the vulnerabilities and collapses of intimacy. Using organic materials such as dyed wool, lead, or wax, she tends to sculptural or architectural elements—healing cracks, filling voids—as if the building itself were a body in need of care and attention.
Animism, a belief system shared by many cultures, considers inanimate objects as living beings. Agathe Berthou’s works propose an animism of architecture, inviting us to change the way we look at our surroundings and, more broadly, the places we move through. She alters existing walls, invents fictional partitions, and imperceptibly transforms the spaces she inhabits until our perception of scale and spatial conventions begins to waver.
