Manon Monge - FRANCE

“Manon Monge lives and works surrounded by nature in the hills of Haute-Provence.

Her daily life is punctuated by simple, essential gestures: cultivating, harvesting, and transforming. She produces olive oil from her orchard, makes soaps from local ingredients, and creates wild basketry weaving pieces, deeply connected to this intimate relationship with the living world.

Her basketry practice relies on gathering wild plants such as , grasses, twigs, young branches, and edible needles, collected around her home.

She braids and weaves slowly, by hand, often letting the material guide the form.

The techniques, often adapted or repurposed, remain open and intuitive, far removed from any search for standardization or protocol.

Her pieces exist at the boundary between object and sculpture; they emerge slowly, leaving room for the unexpected, for lightness, for emptiness, and bearing the mark of time, of repeated gestures, of attentiveness.

Her work is a way of inhabiting the world, where creation and contemplation are one.”