Manon Harrois is a multi-media artist who is based in Paris, France and embraces the subject of the color blue, extending this otherwise flat two-dimensional hue into an element that scales throughout time. The artist’s transformation of color into form begins conventionally, either on paper or against blue cobalt, before stretching toward either the wall surface or across the floor. Ultimately Harrois fuses automated kinetic sounds with unscripted performances that accentuate the random nature of blue and its contrast.

In early 2014 Manon Harrois presented an elaborate, untitled installation at the Abrons Art Center that was part of a group show titled This Exhibition Has Everything To Go Wrong. Within this space, the artist presented sculpted sugar-coated rice treats in the form of a miniature make-shift Colosseum that was set outside on a bench for anyone and anything to indulge in. A series of blue drawings affixed and applied to the wall appeared sporadically throughout one corner of the gallery’s exhibition space.

By summer, the artist titled the documentation of this event Wonderful Failure that showed pigeons eating away at the artist’s handmade monument while the blue drawings were included in Soundless Harmonies at the Artopia Gallery in Milan, Italy. La Suite À Tamago is a performance that took place in April 2014 at Galerie Césaré, located in Béthany, France. Under blue light two artists improvise form and movement while balancing the yellow yoke of an egg across shoulders, arms and legs.

With presentation by Gilles Fuchs, Harrois brought her abstract, figural and color-based explorations of survival and subtraction to Premier Regard of Paris, France in the form of a solo show during June 2014. Titled A rire dans l’eau (Forgetting losing looping), the artist presented a new site-specific performance with elaborately mapped blue drawings.

Manon Harrois studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métier d’Art in Paris, France. Upon completing her studies in 2009 the artist received a research grant from the Fondation Walter-Zellidja to Nigeria which resulted in two performance-based installations titled Real Metiss Wax and Saint ombilic that took place at the Abbaye de Vinetz located in Chalons en Champagne, France. In 2011 and 2013 Harrois presented Monodiella Flexuosa and La réponse de la plante à l’oeufduring Nuite Blanche in Paris. With funding from Région Champagne Ardenne, along with support from Premier Regard and the Centre d’Art Contemporain/Passages in Troyes, Manon Harrois has published epreuve sans titre, a catalogue of drawings and performances with texts by Germain Viatte and Felipe Becerra.

Contact Harrois by email at manon [dot] harrois [at] gmail [dot] com