The work of Elsa-Louise Manceaux relates to a certain clash of times. Her pictorial practice recurrently explores the relationship between context and meaning, information and matter. Along various series, she states parallels between body and mind, History and belief, landscape and weather – by placing in perspective the role played by technique and technology within her subject matters.
Across these lines, she builds anachronistic narratives between medium, support and image. In that sense, Manceaux’s works also pursues experimentation with different techniques such as fresco or egg-tempera, that at times, has resulted in expanding her practice towards three-dimensional paintings and installations.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Manceaux studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2009 and then attended the postgraduate program at SOMA from 2015-2016 in Mexico City, where she lives and works since 2012. In 2012-2013 she received the grant for emerging artists from the Mondriaan Fund (NL) and from 2018-2020 she was part of the BBVA-MACG (MX) scholarship. In 2019 she earned the acquisition prize of the 3d Landscape Biennial in Nogales (Sonora, MX). She was a grantee of FONCA – Jóvenes Creadores from 2020-2021.
Among her recent solo and group shows are: 'Orgasmos en el fondo', Museo Experimental El Eco (2023); ‘Las épocas caleidoscópicas’, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara (2022); ‘The most beautiful moments’, Fundación Calosa, Guanajuato (2020); ‘Parasitajes / Ruidos Negros’, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2020), ‘Bienal del Paisaje #3’, Museo de Arte de Nogales, Sonora (2019); ‘Inter/Medio’, ESPAC, Mexico City (2019); ‘Fin del Futuro’, SAPS La Tallera, Cuernavaca (2019); 'Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue', Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (2019); 'Desiluminaciones', Lodos, Mexico City (2018); ‘Hola Fantasma’, Diablo Rosso, Panama City (2017); ‘Painting Problems’, Bikini Wax, Mexico City (2015).