The weight

Manuel Mathieu

BornNationalityBased In
1986HaitianMontréal, Montreux
Biography

Manuel Mathieu is a multidisciplinary artist, working with painting, drawing, ceramics, and installation. His work investigates themes of historical violence, erasure and cultural approaches to physicality, nature, and spiritual legacy. Mathieu’s interests are partially informed by his upbringing in Haiti, and his experience emigrating to Montréal at the age of nineteen. Freely operating in between and borrowing from numerous historical influences and traditions, Mathieu aims to find meaning through a spiritual or asemic mode of apparition. Mathieu has developed a distinctive abstract visual language, used to create phenomenological encounters that confront our didactic traditions. Amorphous forms vacillate and dissolve into one another, creating boundless landscapes traversable through desire. Through his quest for meaning, transparency and openness he undertakes a process of discovering his work, as opposed to creating it; by doing so the work holds its autonomy and can be assimilated into a space of collective consciousness. The vibrational effect of his work elicits physical and emotional frequencies that offer alternative methods for navigating the world. ...

Selected Artworks
Study on an apparition
Manuel Mathieu
Study on an apparition, 2020
91.4 x 76.2cm
Bauman
Manuel Mathieu
Bauman, 2021
40.6 x 50.8cm
Roklor
Manuel Mathieu
Roklor, 2022
182.9 x 172.7cm
Frontier
Manuel Mathieu
Frontier, 2020
200 x 190cm
Study on a head 2
Manuel Mathieu
Study on a head 2, 2021
55.9 x 66cm
Apparition 3
Manuel Mathieu
Apparition 3, 2022
228.6 x 190.5cm
Transfiguration
Manuel Mathieu
Transfiguration, 2021
52.1 x 50.8cm
Somatic
Manuel Mathieu
Somatic, 2020
173 x 152cm
Figuration or the Psychology of Creating Content
Manuel Mathieu
Figuration or the Psychology of Creating Content, 2022
150 x 180cm
Where Should We Begin
Manuel Mathieu
Where Should We Begin, 2021
20.3 x 20.3 x 7.6cm
Wet Mammy
Manuel Mathieu
Wet Mammy, 2021
61 x 53.3 x 35.6cm
White Gaze
Manuel Mathieu
White Gaze, 2021
83.8 x 61 x 34.3cm
The weight
Manuel Mathieu
The weight, 2022
213.4 x 152.4cm
The temptation
Manuel Mathieu
The temptation, 2022
190.5 x 203.2cm
Constellation
Manuel Mathieu
Constellation, 2022
190.5 x 203.2cm
Gallery Representation
Awards
Sobey Art Award2020
Sobey Art Award2020
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