Agbo Godeau's practice explores themes of race, identity, and the complexities of representation. Drawing from a diverse range of sources—including cinema, literature, and popular culture—and informed by her mixed heritage (French, German, and Beninese), Agbo Godeau's work examines the intersections of personal and cultural histories, as well as how prescribed narratives and stereotypes shape perceptions of self and others.

Working across painting and installation, Agbo Godeau constructs fragmented narratives that resist resolution, employing visual metaphors such as concealment, revelation, and transformation. Through her layered and meticulous processes, she isolates details from archival materials, film stills, photographs, and found imagery, abstracting them into new contexts and inviting viewers to reconsider their assumptions and associations.

Agbo Godeau's highly rendered paintings create an interplay between clarity and obscurity, often positioning subjects in ambiguous states between presence and absence, familiarity and estrangement. Whether depicting a figure in action or an isolated object, her images evoke a sense of movement and multiplicity, encouraging engagement with the underlying histories and all the possible meanings embedded within.

Born in Paris in 1995, Agbo Godeau obtained her MFA from the Beaux-Arts in 2018 before moving to Düsseldorf where she studied under Ellen Gallagher at the Kunstakademie between 2019 and 2021. Recent exhibitions of her work include Blackground: murmures des mornes at the CAPC Musée d'art contemporain in Bordeaux (2026); 1, 2, 3 at the A4 Arts Foundation in Cape Town (2026); Behind Eyes at the Kunstverein in Bielefeld (2025); junger westen 2025 Art Prize at the Kunsthalle in Recklinghausen (2025); Aperture (solo exhibition) at blank projects in Cape Town (2025); In anderen Händen: Highlights der Sammlung Philara at the Miettinen Collection in Berlin (2025); 20 Jahre dHCS-Stipendium at the Kunstverein in Düsseldorf (2024); The 't' is Silent: 8th biennale of Painting at the Museum Dondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (2022); and Species of space at the Bass Museum in Miami (2022).