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Figurative and sensitive, the artwork of Manon Uettwiller oscillates between naturalism, realism, and travel sketching. Having lived in Marseille for four years, she intertwines motifs drawn from the animal world, the portrait genre, and architectural elements in her works, making the city, landscapes, travels, and her sensations a fantastic playground.
Thanks to the light provided by the ink, the vibrancy of the painting, and the sensitivity infused into the lines, she sketches scenes like snapshots of life, capturing what she observes and perceives around her.
At the heart of this animal world that inspires her so much, one species in particular stands out. In her ink views of Marseille, she captures a place, its essence, what defines its identity, and as a representation of herself, she includes a chickadee whose disproportionate size renders the image poetic, unreal. This chickadee symbolizes freedom, lightness, and simplicity. It makes the city exceptional, highlighting places we tend to see without truly noticing, giving them a new dimension. She isolates them from their usual environment to bring them back to the center, urging us to pay fresh attention to them. She also lets this chickadee fly in other cities and places, but it is mainly Marseille, the vibrant city, the Phocaean city, that attracts her. And despite the black and white, we perceive its warmth, the sun, the nuances, its very particular atmosphere.
Manon Uettwiller is an artist whose touch is almost documentary, as she offers a vivid vision of the subjects she represents. She infuses them with a bit of dreaminess and beauty, of wonder, to bring that to those who view her works. She also puts nature and its beings at the heart of urban spaces, creating simple unions where each has its rights and the possibility to be free. Axelle Delorme
Manon Uettwiller (MÜ), a Marseille-based artist, illustrator, painter, and graphic designer, lives and works in Marseille. Trained at the highly traditional École Émile Cohl in Lyon, she has managed to combine technical rigor and artistic sensitivity in her creations. Her figurative and sensitive works shape the urban imagination with a distinctive touch, notably through her ink drawings of chickadees.
She is thus recognized for her compositions where birds and architectural elements meet. Her giant chickadees, both powerful and delicate, bring life and softness to urban spaces, introducing a dreamlike dimension into our cities. This approach reflects her vision of the world as a place where imagination and reality meet, offering a visual interpretation imbued with mystery and delicacy.
