Les merveilles

Gabrielle Manglou's work is poetic and multiform. Drawings, photographs, volumes and archive images play with shifting boundaries. Her work questions the sphere of human relationships, where power, nature, culture and otherness are measured.

With the Les Merveilles school residency, she proposes to consider otherness - as the quality of what is other, in humans and non-humans (plant, animal, mineral, cosmic world) - "as a communion, a reflecting surface that would lead us to consider ecology not just as a science or a political formula, but as an internal prose of the world, an incessant dialogue, an inseparability of all things and beings, a necessary conviviality with and through the living".

What the artist wants to highlight in Les Merveilles is "an awareness of reciprocity as a sensitive phenomenon in understanding the world". She will take as her starting point the different cultural perceptions that the pupils have of their environment, whether near or far, to develop a shared creation based on her own way of apprehending the environment, i.e. through detail, as well as on surveys, collections and other finds.