Manon Casagrande

I take my time but I never give up!

Her practice encompasses painting, photography and installation. Manon Casagrande's artistic approach is essentially based on the duality between inert elements created by human hands, and the living. She is particularly interested in notions of propagation and decomposition. She brings out encounters between components of different natures, in an attempt to make them cohabit. Her main subject is the body coming into contact with its environment, be it vegetal, architectural or luminous. She has been snorkeling in Martinique for 8 years, and has noticed the degradation of underwater life and the increasing presence of waste underwater. As a result, in 2023 she embarked on a project called "Immergé" (immersed), where her aim is to reconnect humans with the element of water, and to raise awareness in a poetic way of human impacts, and of the links between objects left in the sea and underwater life. In 2024, she developed a creative process using salt water and pigments, which led her to work on the porosity and exudation of canvas. She follows in the footsteps of Guillaume Logé's Renaissance Sauvage, whose responses to environmental issues are a work in progress.