About the artist
Morgane Ely (b. 1995) is a French artist living and working in Paris.
After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris in 2021, she spent several years exploring serigraphy and lithography. It was during a stay in Tokyo that Morgane Ely was introduced to Japanese printmaking and wood engraving. These techniques, which require few resources, she quickly adopted, combining them with the printing processes she had mastered, thus freeing herself from the constraints of the studio and the printing press. Engraving is the lifeblood of her work, giving her prints a photo-realistic appearance. Prints whose traditional heritage comes face to face with contemporary feminine representations filtered through Fast-Culture and Instagram. By appropriating their symbolism and reinventing their destinies, often suppressed by male domination, she confers heroic qualities on them, setting them up as goddesses and warriors. Morgane Ely's work questions the embodiment of today's women of power through her choice of images, poor in resolution as they are retrieved from the Internet.
In this way, Morgane Ely creates a unique iconographic reservoir, reflecting current content consumption practices (streaming in particular) and new modes of social interaction (social networks, blogs, etc.). Playing deliberately with visibility and legibility, the artist likes the idea that we can't immediately grasp his works, that the need to take the time to approach, to stop and stare to see what is represented or written, imposes itself.A striking, sorority-inspired freeze-frame.