Agnès Roux is a multidisciplinary media artist born in 1971. She lives and works in Monaco.
She graduated from the Faculty of Letters in Nice with a University Diploma in Art History and Archaeology (1993), from EPIAR–Villa Arson in Nice with a DNAP degree in Art (1996), and from the School of Fine Arts in Aix-en-Provence with a DNSEP degree in Art (2008).
Since 1997, she has directed Le Logoscope, a research and creation laboratory based in the Principality of Monaco, which she founded and where she also works as an artist-researcher.
From 1999 to 2023, she served as Professor of Video and Image Systems at Pavillon Bosio – the Higher School of Art and Scenography of the City of Monaco. There, she developed a teaching approach that combined practical, technical, and theoretical dimensions, grounded in the analysis of a pluralistic and transversal history of moving images and their exhibition spaces, from prehistory to the present day.
She also conducted workshops at the University of Rabat in 2001 and at La Cambre – National Higher School of Visual Arts in Brussels in 2011 and 2013, where she also served as a jury member for the ceramics department (Bachelor 3, Master 1, and Master 2).
Her research, artistic practice, and pedagogy are based on the study of media across different disciplines, their “graphies,” and the evolution of their historical contexts. To explore the diversity of the territories she traverses, their languages, and their craftsmanship, her writing system relies on anthropological analysis and on collage principles, particularly the Cut-up technique.
Favoring collaborative practices, she develops narrative frameworks that allow her to construct shared imaginary poetic forms, where the initiatory dimension raises the question of how to inhabit and share a world facing unprecedented ecological and humanistic challenges.
Research at the intersection of art and science accompanies her exploration of wild and rural environments, as well as her own territory of belonging — the Principality of Monaco — which she observes as a heterogeneous zone of exchange open to the world and its diversity.
Her multidisciplinary background has led her to develop a multi-media practice ranging from installation and authorial scenography to ceramics, publishing, visual arts, performance, curatorial work, and dramaturgy.
She regularly exhibits her personal and collaborative creations in cities such as Monaco, Nice, Rome, Milan, Genoa, Annecy, Toulouse, Marseille, Rabat, and Ottawa.
Selected Highlights
Following a series of Earth/Image workshops for Pavillon Bosio in collaboration with ceramic artist Daphne Corregan between 2006 and 2015, and a one-year residency at Poterie Provençale in Biot in 2008, ceramics became a central aspect of her research and artistic practice. Agnès Roux is also deeply engaged with philosophy and the humanities, which strongly nourish her reflections and work. In this context, from 2014 to 2020, she organized a series of Philosophy/Videography workshops for Pavillon Bosio in collaboration with art philosopher Ondine Bréaud.
In 2018, together with JP Racca Vammerisse and Le Logoscope, she launched a research and creation program titled MOINES KAOLIN, focusing on heritage and artistic research rooted in the Industrial Revolution and Monaco’s first two artistic pottery workshops. Having become a specialist in this field, she was invited in 2020 as an artist-researcher attached to curator Cristiano Raimondi for the exhibition Artifices Instables at the New National Museum of Monaco, for whose catalogue she also authored a text.
Following a long collaboration and the creation of numerous performative works, in 2021 she wrote the dramaturgy for the choreographic piece TSUNAGU by Mimoza Koïke, produced by the Ballets de Monte-Carlo company and presented at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
She is currently developing, within the framework of the Moines Kaolin and Anthropo(s)cène programs of Le Logoscope, two projects entitled OFFICES DES MENUS PLAISIRS (ceramics, installation, and culinary arts) and LA BOURSE OU LA VIE (performance, ceramics, ritual, and video).
