ÉCUME DES LUMIÈRES
08.05.25 - 07.06.25
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Onoko
Manon Duparc & François Pain
PERCEPT
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“Ensemble de perceptions et de sensations qui survit à ceux qui les éprouvent.”
Gilles Deleuze
Molecular poetry, the genesis of the magic of reality, color has always inhabited emptiness and filled space. It is, much like the sound of water or wind, our shared “Madeleine de Proust.” Seeking to capture this alchemy of color, the Percepts dissolve the figurative shell to preserve only that fleeting detail of the soul’s journey known as the “choir of colors,” as W. Kandinsky described it. This series of abstract impressionist photography softens forms — at the very moment of capture — leaving only colors and their relation to light. From these suspended atmospheric resonances emerges the soul of the void: a soul made of light, color, and sound.
Onoko is a molecule of imagination born at 24:01, in the utopian minute where imagination gives way to dreams. Made of a symbiotic duo, Manon Duparc & François Pain – it is a shared creative voice, a plea for an imaginary world in which every image is an invitation to go beyond perception.
“Écume des Lumières” is an exhibition curated by MABE Gallery. Through their photographic series Percept, the artists explore the subtle, enigmatic atmospheres of light and color, capturing fleeting moments that transcend the visible world. Once figurative elements are stripped away, what remains is the essence of light, color, and sound. The images, unedited and composed solely of intricate gradients of color, nevertheless reveal a profound sensitivity to the details of “light and form” or “forms of light” as well as to the careful composition of ambiance.
Echoes of atmospheric symphonies from distant longitudes, the exhibition of the artistic duo Onoko invites us to dive into the effervescence of lights from here and elsewhere. Through their series of abstract impressionist photography “Percept”, ethereal colors dance and settle onto Japanese fibers, interwoven with the sound of percussion. It is a journey across a suspended ocean, one that will cling to the hills of the city at the far end of the lake.
