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Manon Weiser

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Born in 1982, she works and lives in Grenoble, France.

Catharsis (from the Greek κάθαρσις kátharsis, purification) is the word that defines tragedy in Aristotle's Poetics as emotional, bodily, mental and spiritual purification. Through the experience of compassion and fear (eleos and phobos), the spectators of tragedy would experience the purification of the soul from these passions. Furthermore, it refers to the cathartic method used at the beginning of its practice by Sigmund Freud, which led to hypnosis, and later, to the method of free association. Catharsis would be a way of purifying oneself and channelling human and personal tragedy, so that this discharge does not circulate in the body (somatisation).

Manon started photography 20 years ago when she was suffering from social phobias, the camera has helped her to get out and fight these fears.

She says that the self-portrait is her catharsis and that everything can inspire her work, her daily emotions, a film, a landscape, a conversation...

'Forever with me is the taste of forgotten memories, clinging from my past like loose threads from a frayed ball of yarn. Dark reminiscences ironically filled by absences and disappearances. I like to go in search of traces, memories, often small footprints, bordering on the imperceptible, to explore the hidden corners of man that we consider dark and which we prefer to hide from our eyes, preferring to live in ignorant bliss.

Through the lens, I try to show what is fundamentally intangible and for this I chose to forego digital mediums in favor of more tangible and more palpable ones in an effort and with the aim to evoke the rawest of human emotions. My work combines pinhole, ferrotype, etching, collage and embroidery; my images aim to arouse a universal common denominator and in doing so they reveal a fragile beauty, that is often subtle and suggestive. But ultimately every beauty, and every emotion succumbs to the inevitable deterioration that strikes everything in this world without prejudice nor bias'