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Elsa-Louise Manceaux
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Though multidisciplinary in her projects and collaborations, Elsa-Louise Manceaux works primarily in drawing and painting. The formal concerns present in her work evolved from Manceaux’s personal interest in and research into the history of comics and illustrative humor. Explorations of narrative structure, the vernacular, and the expressive, stylized lines in comics—are all present in her abstract compositions.
The scope of her practice presents a multi-faceted, career-long obsession with story-telling and imagery. Some earlier works incorporate video or photography, using the medium to transpose narrative structures from one to the other. Multiple views of museum surveillance CCTV, became the frames of comic books in an installation at the MUCA Roma museum in Mexico City. Abstract stories unfold on-screen, without dialogue or context, through the repetitive movements of museum goers. Her recent paintings scrutinize the performance of form and color. In these works, Manceaux distills linear “tropes” from comics and explores their potential for narrative, outside of the comic book format.
Elsa-Louise Manceaux completed her studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2009. She has exhibited in Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Iceland, as well as edited and published CANICHE, a magazine …
Though multidisciplinary in her projects and collaborations, Elsa-Louise Manceaux works primarily in drawing and painting. The formal concerns present in her work evolved from Manceaux’s personal interest in and research into the history of comics and illustrative humor. Explorations of narrative structure, the vernacular, and the expressive, stylized lines in comics—are all present in her abstract compositions.
The scope of her practice presents a multi-faceted, career-long obsession with story-telling and imagery. Some earlier works incorporate video or photography, using the medium to transpose narrative structures from one to the other. Multiple views of museum surveillance CCTV, became the frames of comic books in an installation at the MUCA Roma museum in Mexico City. Abstract stories unfold on-screen, without dialogue or context, through the repetitive movements of museum goers. Her recent paintings scrutinize the performance of form and color. In these works, Manceaux distills linear “tropes” from comics and explores their potential for narrative, outside of the comic book format.
Elsa-Louise Manceaux completed her studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2009. She has exhibited in Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Iceland, as well as edited and published CANICHE, a magazine of illustrations from artists around the world. In 2012 and 2013 she received an award from The Mondriaan Fund for emerging artists. Manceaux is currently completing a two-year study program at the artist-run art schoool, SOMA, in Mexico City, where she lives and works.
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Born 1985
Hometown Paris, France
Lives and Works Mexico City, Mexico
Education
MFA SOMA Educative Program, Mexico City, MX, 2015-2016
BA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, NL, 2009
Ateliers de Sèvres, Paris, FR, 2004
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