Simon Manoha
Wild
13 February
→
29 March 2025
16 rue de l'Arcade,
Paris
(France)
About the event
Titled Wild, the solo exhibition dedicated to artist Simon Manoha will run from February 13 to March 17, 2025. Balancing between the evocation of the human figure and expressive abstraction, Manoha’s works summon natural elements to establish a visceral presence.
His singular practice, sometimes countercultural and widely acclaimed in recent years, has earned him features in major museum exhibitions such as Contre Nature at MOCO, Montpellier, 2022 - Toucher Terre at La Villa Datris, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, 2022 - Stadt Museum, Hüfingen, Germany, 2023 - Cuire au bois at Maison de la Céramique de Dieulefit, 2024 - Biennale of Contemporary Ceramics, Santorini, Greece, 2024.
This sculptural work of exceptional quality demonstrates the immense richness and plastic potential of ceramics when perfectly mastered. The artist’s approach leans toward a mineral, rocky aesthetic, occasionally punctuated with ironic touches of provocative glazes. Some pieces are entirely composed of elements sourced and transformed by the artist himself from nature.
Is Simon Manoha inviting us to reflect on permanence and ephemerality, solidity and fragility? His work subtly interrogates the relationship between humanity, nature, and artifice.
Visit the gallery to explore his latest creations!
His singular practice, sometimes countercultural and widely acclaimed in recent years, has earned him features in major museum exhibitions such as Contre Nature at MOCO, Montpellier, 2022 - Toucher Terre at La Villa Datris, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, 2022 - Stadt Museum, Hüfingen, Germany, 2023 - Cuire au bois at Maison de la Céramique de Dieulefit, 2024 - Biennale of Contemporary Ceramics, Santorini, Greece, 2024.
This sculptural work of exceptional quality demonstrates the immense richness and plastic potential of ceramics when perfectly mastered. The artist’s approach leans toward a mineral, rocky aesthetic, occasionally punctuated with ironic touches of provocative glazes. Some pieces are entirely composed of elements sourced and transformed by the artist himself from nature.
Is Simon Manoha inviting us to reflect on permanence and ephemerality, solidity and fragility? His work subtly interrogates the relationship between humanity, nature, and artifice.
Visit the gallery to explore his latest creations!
Born in 1987 in Ardèche, Simon Manoha develops a form of ceramics rooted in earth, music, and philosophy. His pieces, shaped using the Japanese kurinuki technique, seem to emerge from the ground itself, as if revealed by fire.
After studying improvised music and contemporary philosophy at the Sorbonne, he returned to the raw material: clay. The heir to a potter uncle, he walks, digs, and collects clays, minerals, and ashes in the forests of Ardèche. These elements become the pigments and glazes of his personal language.
He built his own anagama kiln by hand, which he fires with local woods, chestnut, pine, ash, and acacia, for forty-eight-hour firings. Each piece, hollowed from a raw block, retains the trace of effort, fire, and chance.
His work lies between pottery and sculpture, between ancestral gesture and contemporary meditation. For Simon Manoha, firing is not merely a technical act, it is an existential experience, a way of listening to the earth breathe.
After studying improvised music and contemporary philosophy at the Sorbonne, he returned to the raw material: clay. The heir to a potter uncle, he walks, digs, and collects clays, minerals, and ashes in the forests of Ardèche. These elements become the pigments and glazes of his personal language.
He built his own anagama kiln by hand, which he fires with local woods, chestnut, pine, ash, and acacia, for forty-eight-hour firings. Each piece, hollowed from a raw block, retains the trace of effort, fire, and chance.
His work lies between pottery and sculpture, between ancestral gesture and contemporary meditation. For Simon Manoha, firing is not merely a technical act, it is an existential experience, a way of listening to the earth breathe.
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