Charlotte Mano

After a double curriculum in modern literature and cultural communication, Charlotte Mano joined the Gobelins school and graduated in 2017. While it apparently unfolds around several themes (the body, space, darkness), her work never ceases to question the image: its power of representation and its transparency, but also its own limits. There are memories, characters, landscapes, sensations, all translated into a toned-down, contemplative, somewhat nostalgic atmosphere.

In her series titled Portraire, Charlotte Mano questions the image and its power of representation. With bluish images and vaporous bodies, the subjects seem frozen, as if the image gently struck them with an irremediable sensation of artificiality and pictoriality. This reflection on the image as a veil is continuously explored in real space, as well as in the studio: the image takes on the appearance of a painting in both 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 boundaries through a contemporary view of the fashion figure. She applies an indeterminate substance to her models: Characters? Mannequins? Ghosts? These faces seem to seek calm, introspection, solitude, dreams, and fantasy.

Presentation from a text written by Charlotte Mano.