For over ten years, Elsa-Louise Manceaux has transformed painting from a strictly visual field into a media interface that engages in affective dialogues. In her practice, the history of traditional painting deviates toward other forms of use and communication styles. Her work interlaces intimate and emotional relationships—all mediated by chronological inconsistencies.
Recurrently, her multifaceted painting practice explores the complex definition of our current times, through exploring the relation between bodies and minds, History and imagination, language and sensibilities, context and meaning, information and matter – by putting in perspective the role played by technique and technology within her subjects, and in regards to the pictorial surface itself. Across these lines, she builds anachronistic narratives between medium, support and image. In that sense, Manceaux’s works also follow the pursuit of experimenting with different techniques and their historicities, which at times has resulted in expending her practice towards three-dimensional paintings, installations, and performative events.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Manceaux completed her studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2009 and later attended SOMA, an artist-run post-graduate program for the years 2015-2016 in Mexico City where she lives and works since 2012. In 2012-2013 she received a grant from the Mondriaan Fund (NL) for emerging artists and was a fellow of the BBVA-MACG program 2018-2020 (MX). She also was a recipient of the Mexican government grant FONCA Jovenes Creadores for the years 2020-2021. In recent years, her work have been included in the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil collection.
Solo Exhibitions (selection): Voice Notes, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2025), Qualities’ Times, Pequod, Mexico City (2024), Orgasmos en el fondo, Museo Experimental El Eco, CDMX (2023), Kaleidoscopic Times, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara (2022); Desilluminations, Lodos, Mexico City (2018); Hola Fantasma, Diablo Rosso, Panama City (2017); Painting Problems, Biquini Wax, Mexico City (2015).
Group Exhibtion (selection): Historia de las exposiciones 1974-2024, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2025), Contemporary Painting in Mexico, Amparo Museum, Puebla, MX (2024), The most beautiful moments, Fundación Calosa, Guanajuato (2020); Parasitajes / Ruidos Negros, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2020); Bienal del Paisaje #3, Museo de Arte de Nogales, Sonora (2019); End of Future, SAPS La Tallera, Cuernavaca (2019); Pintura Reactiva, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2018); How To Be Being, Super Dakota, Brussels (2017).
