Melanie Manchot is a London-based visual artist working with photography, film/video as a performative and participatory practice. Her projects respond to specific sites and public spaces or particular communities to explore individual and collective identities. Location-based research and reconstruction are recurring methods/strategies, informing both content and visual frameworks that guide the production of projects. Moving image works, both single screen and multi-channel installations operate on the cross section of documentary and staged events and form a sustained enquiry into how fact, fiction, narrative and observation offer strategies for speaking about identity and our shifting place in an increasingly mediated world. Recent solo exhibitions include Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (2016), fig-2 at the ICA, London (2015), Galerie M, Bochum (2015), Toronto Photography Festival (2012), Nuit Blanche, Paris (2011) and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2010). Important group exhibitions include Marl Media Arts Awards, Germany (2016), Group Therapy, FACT, Liverpool (2015), The Rhythm Is…, Museum Folkwang, Essen (2014), Situations, Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Paris (2012), Wunder, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2011), 52nd Biennale di Venezia (2007), Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2007). Her work is included in important collections including Arts Council Collection, FMAC, Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Paris and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Melanie Manchot
Studios
Nef
Melanie Manchot worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…