Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien

Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien

BornNationalityBased In
1990FrenchParis
Biography

Born in 1990 to an Ivorian father and a Guadeloupean mother, Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien grew up between Abidjan and Paris. She lives and works in Paris. Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Cergy, Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien has developed an ambitious, sensitive and polymorphous personal practice. Creator of new forms, explorer of materials and signs, Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien defines herself as a storyteller of poems. Like labyrinths or rebus, her works compose new topographies around the themes of femininity, identity and the body, at the crossroads of her Caribbean and West African heritage. The artist’s works, on the border of sculpture, weaving and installation, offer us the possibility of navigating the meanders of their poetic narratives, of losing the landmarks that have been bequeathed to us in order to perhaps better redraw a path of life that is our own. ...

Selected Artworks
Corps entre vagues et cieux
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Corps entre vagues et cieux, 2023
100 x 70cm
Corps mêlés - Tenir le lien
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Corps mêlés - Tenir le lien, 2023
85 x 100cm
Map, ceramic, grattoir et cheveux
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Map, ceramic, grattoir et cheveux, 2023
60 x 70cm
Map, hair, and razorblade
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Map, hair, and razorblade, 2023
150 x 100cm
Plante aux yeux
Organic Landscape #2
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Organic Landscape #2, 2024
250 x 120cm
Human intra natura, Nuit
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Human intra natura, Nuit, 2024
135 x 185cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Manifesta2024 - Barcelona
Venice Biennial2024 - Venice
Biennale de Dakar2024 - Dakar
Biennale of Sydney2024 - Sydney
Venice Biennial2024 - Venice
Manifesta2024 - Barcelona
Biennale de Dakar2024 - Dakar
Biennale of Sydney2024 - Sydney
Eva International2018 - Limerick
Eva International2018 - Limerick
Eva International2011 - Limerick
Eva International2011 - Limerick
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