Charlotte MANO

After studying modern literature and cultural communication, Charlotte Mano joined the Gobelins school, graduating in 2017. Although her work apparently revolves around several themes (the body, space, darkness), it constantly questions the image: its power, its transparency, but also its own limits. It contains memories, characters, landscapes, sensations, all translated into a hushed, contemplative, somewhat nostalgic atmosphere.

In her series entitled Portraire, Charlotte Mano questions the image and its power of representation. Bluish images, vaporous bodies, the subjects seem frozen, as if the image gently struck them with an irremediable feeling of artificiality and pictorialism. She constantly experiments with this reflection on the image as a veil in real space, but also in the studio: the image takes on the appearance of a painting in its form and as a final work.

In this series, Charlotte Mano is at the crossroads of several influences: art, fashion, painting, she gently breaks down borders thanks to a contemporary look at the fashion figure. She places an indefinite material on her models: Characters? Models? Ghosts? These faces seem to be seeking calm, introspection, solitude, dreams and fantasies.

Presentation based on a text written by Charlotte Mano.