Manuel Mathieu was born in 1986 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
Manuel Mathieu is a multidisciplinary artist, working across painting, ceramics and installation. His work investigates themes of historical violence, erasure and cultural approaches to physicality, nature and spiritual legacy. Freely operating in between and borrowing from numerous historical influences and traditions, Manuel Mathieu aims to find meaning through a spiritual or asemic mode of apparition. Manuel Mathieu is represented by gallery Pilar Corrias (London).
Mathieu’s residency project will focus on the development of Recueil2, his second recueil of drawings, to be released in 2023. Drawing is an important part of Manuel Mathieu’s practice; while not foundational to his painting process, drawing “taught him how to look at his paintings”. It is for this reason that he committed to the production of a recueil of drawings every five years for the duration of his life, which will summarise his artistic explorations within the medium of drawing within each period. Recueil2 will follow the same format as the first, opening with a poem, following with a selection of drawings and then an interview with a thinker. The individuals invited for collaboration will be chosen from different continents, with the idea that this exchange of views will create a unique dialogue that will act as a complement to the body of drawings.