Beauty and Transience

April 28, 2022

Fotostiftung Schweiz honours the photographic oeuvre of the Swiss artist Manon. The showcase is open until May 29, 2022.
Fotostiftung Schweiz honours the photographic oeuvre of the Swiss artist Manon. The showcase is open until May 29, 2022.

Manon (born 1940 in Bern, lives and works in Zurich) is a script writer, set designer, director, actress – and photographer. With her acting roles as femme fatale, provocative performance art and installations, she has always caused a stir within Zurich’s art scene.

Manon’s photographic oeuvre is a celebration of beauty and transience, heralded by ‘La dame au crâne rasé’ of 1977/78 – her first photographic project to gain international acclaim. In this seminal series, the artist embodies an urban angel: with her shaved head, she looks both sexy and androgynous, vulnerable yet simultaneously untouchably cool.

The current exhibition – which was originally scheduled for 2020 in honour of the artist’s 80th birthday, but had to be postponed due to the pandemic – is a tribute to a truly groundbreaking oeuvre. The showcase primarily revolves around Manon’s photographic explorations: spanning from her early series to projects created in recent years, it brings together famous classics with some of the artist’s lesser-known works.

For further information visit Fotostiftung Schweiz
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Beauty and Transience