THE CREATIVE PROCESS

Why did you become an artist?

MARIE-CLAIRE MESSOUMA MANLANBIEN

I am artist because I can not not other things. My artwork is the fruit and the result of an art research. I try to give to see what can be in the order of feminine. And I give to see feminine elements in relation to element of constraint of not.  

Détail: ACTIVATION - MATER 1 - 2016 © ADAGP Marie-Claire Messouma MANLANBIEN 2017. Technique : vidéo En : (attempt to translation) « i’am gone where gold was stone and where stone was gold. Here, i don't needs money, because where I am treasures are everywhere » «These stones are my heritage given by my mothers Inherited from my father cosseted by my mother They were here under my eyes This stones were shining and hiding things to me Yet, at the highest point , they attracted me attracted my curiosity They questioned me With them, I create Through them, I travel I speak to the world and I want, the world talk to me» © Marie-Claire Messouma MANLANBIEN www.messouma.com

Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien is a multidisciplinary artist. Her artistic work is inspired by the cultures of the world: in her work, she seeks to create encounters between the elements of diverse cultures that she then brings together, while overcoming them with a syncretism that unites them. She is interested in the complex relationships between daily life, universal popular culture and specific traditional practices. She is inspired on the one hand by the elements of its French and Guadeloupian Creole cultures, but also by traditional objects from the matriarchal institution of Côte d’Ivoire, which serve to weigh the value of things. In her installations, Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien creates ephemeral poetic narratives in perpetual renewal, thus creating «witness» pieces of past stories. She continues her research in the field of women. Through her installations she creates poetic narratives. Identity». Poetry storyteller, a maker of new syncretic forms: not as a demiurge, but according to creolization procedures playing «from differentiated ‘zones’ (...), to extract her original material». Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien exhibited her work in Paris during the 61st Salon de Montrouge in 2016 under the direction of Ami Barak , MAC VAL Museum of contemporary art, and at the Quai Branly Museum ; 12th Biennal de la Jeune création ; Her artwork is in the Imago Mundi collection of Tresviso Museum in Italy (supported by Benetton foundation) ; She has also participated in exhibitions in International, London, Benin, United States, Berlin, Ireland where she recently exhibited her work at the 38th International EVA Biennal, curated by Inti Guerrero. MANLANBIEN is finalist of the SAM ART PRIZE 2019.
Installation image courtesy Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien 2019
Supported by the Région Île-de-France
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