Our artists
Manon Lanjouère
Born in 1993, Manon lives and works in Paris.
After studying Art History at the Sorbonne, she decided to fully dedicate herself to photography and joined the Gobelins School in 2014, where she graduated in 2017 as one of the top students in her class.
Due to her parallel involvement in a Parisian theater, her photography practice is marked by staging and set design and tends to evolve into a multidisciplinary approach, blending sounds, photographs, installations, and sculptures.
Her work, guided by literature, seeks to portray fictional worlds. The distance from the narrative, resulting from the use of scientific expressions, although mostly simplified or reinterpreted, allows the viewer to appropriate the stories she stages.
The scientific and the poetic, despite being diametrically opposed, are the two driving forces behind her artistic exploration. In the various subjects she addresses, the attempt to understand the interaction between landscape and humans remains central.
Her work has been exhibited in France and abroad, including at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), the Benaki Museum (Athens), the HOSOO gallery for Kyotographie (Kyoto), the Gacilly festival, and the Fondazione Palazzo da Mosto for Fotografia Europea (Italy). It is part of private collections and institutions such as the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône, and the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP).