Région Sud Design Prize : Manon Garcia del Barrio

Manon Garcia del Barrio lives and works in Marseille, France.

 

Her work is nourished by textile anthropology, and she is committed to shedding light on the history of craft techniques and their diversity. She creates poetic objects, rooted in a place, using local or recycled materials. In her approach, the making process and the encounters it provokes are as important as the work itself.

 

Manon explores the reactions of matter: seeking, designing, and weaving unique objects with surprising qualities. She combines cotton and copper, linen and wood to create moving textile objects: testimonies of a place, a culture, a means of bringing people together around a gesture. It is an initiatory journey through matter.

 

She is drawn to navigation as a subject of study, using it to question our relationship to time, freedom, and the use of resources.

 

A graduate of the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) and the Université d’Aix-Marseille, Manon has worked with LUMA Arles and the Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, and completed a residency with the French Embassy in Nigeria.

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