The unstable living situation creates a sense of loss and sheer abandonment.
Her answer to this world where she is unable to find her marks is to give
life to all objects surrounding her. From an early age, she begins to create
parallel worlds, the kind of simple and naive environment only a child can imagine.
These recreated worlds are going to be her first source of inspiration to what will
later become works of art such as “ Mes amis Taxidermisés”( My Taxidermised Friends, 2001) ,
“ Mes Amis dans des Boules à Neige” ( My Friends in Snow Balls, 2002)“,
Toi Aussi Collectionne les Bunnies”( You Too, Collect Bunnies, 2003).
Manywild starts listing everything that surrounds her with the help of
an Hanimex she recieves of her grand mother.
After having spent ten years in the country, where she writes for herself
and rethink the world through articles in fanzines, Manywild moves back
to Paris. The discovery of such artists as Sophie Calle, Cindy Sherman,
Jeff Wall, Nan Goldin, Paul MacCarthy and many more inspires her to create,
putting her in this sphere of influence where intimacy becomes universal.
and enrolls the University of Paris VIII that she completes in 1998.
During this time, she develops a sense of estheticism that brings
us back to the quest for fallen perfection, like a “Barbie doll who
would throw herself out of the fifeen floor”
comic books in which dolls speak up...( Little Cruel Fairy Tale of Ordinary Life)
( Love, what is it?) ( Very Nasty Girls) or in the photographic series
“ The New Superman” in which she depicts her quest for the ideal man.
Paying constant attention to details leads her to always try new media such as video
(creation of the duo « Les Enfants de Cocteau » with Cédric Moreau)
singing ( the band “Les Perruques Raides” played numerous festivals
all over the country), acting: (she is often the main character in her work)
She is using as many media as possible in order to make sure she is not missing
out on anything that could translate her emotions and her need to tell the world.
the uncompromising tone of Manywild’s work. Today,
throughout her work on ‘object books’, her road movie
like photographic diptych ‘Les Petites Filles Modèles’ ,
Manywild keeps on carving up reality in a way only
a butcher’s daughter knows how.
she has to work to substain her art, she will try everything:
From 1994 untill now she will work as a nutritionist, auxiliary nurse,
salesperson, photo laboratory assistant, dressmaker, costume designer,
waitress, photo model, hostess, bar manager, bookshop assistant,
theatre photographer, assistant photographer, movie set photographer,
actress, wardrobe assistant for Yves St Laurent, butcher on the markets,
barmaid, cinematographer, painter decorator on set...
everything that happens to me) but also within the most intimate
sphere that is my mind where i draw my hopes and my disillusions,
and from which i recreate a perfect world (not in the sens that everything
goes for the best, but more like a place where i would have an omniscient hold ).
so i go from a private sphere to a public one by scenarizing the elements
that are surrounding me, trying to integrate them into a universal reality.
the raw material that is life, your own life,
and i am doing this with an extrem awarness : i want to remember everything,
i don’t want to miss a single thing, as insignificant as it might appear.
The very notion of “what happens” is so important to me that i feel
a compulsive need to recreate these scenes, these stills, to keep them in.
The writting process has a very important role.
Everything is carefully written in details before i start carrying through.
The medium used is also fundamental: i’ll use different ones if necessary
(objects, photography, video, texts) but always in a symbiose, as a way to translate
the idea as precisely as possible.
themselves to the world in order to find an echo.
Thanks to them (or through them) i can project myself
towards others, to confront them and feel closer, because
if not everyone daydreams, everybody feels the need
to dream and the desire to listen to stories...