Simon Manoha
Lives and works in Ardèche, France
Born in 1987
From philosophy to ceramics, passing through improvised music and photography: the journey of a self-taught individual in love with nature !
Simon Manoha wants to make the earth speak, in its rawest and most poetic form. He spends days exploring, selecting and gathering clays, minerals and different types of wood from the surrounding forests. Then he tests them, explores their properties and uses them to sculpt and create his works. In keeping with a demanding environmental ethic, he regularly fires in wood-fired kilns, which he builds and develops according to the effects he wants to achieve. His sculptures embody a presence, the intensity of a moment when the artist transforms the material, the earth, to reveal other things. Often anthropomorphic, sometimes evocative in form, his works are like petrified figures.
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