Écume des Lumières: Onoko – Manon Duparc & François Pain

“Ensemble de perceptions et de sensations qui survit à ceux qui les éprouvent.” 

Gilles Deleuze 

Color as molecular poetry, a genesis of a kind of magic of the real, has always inhabited emptiness and filled space. It is, much like the sound of water or wind, our shared “Madeleine de Proust.” Seeking to capture this alchemy of color, the Percepts dissolve the figurative shell to preserve only that fleeting detail of the soul’s journey known as the “choir of colors,” as W. Kandinsky described it. This series of abstract impressionist photography softens forms — at the very moment of capture — leaving only colors and their relation to light. From these suspended atmospheric resonances emerges the soul of the void: a soul made of light, color, and sound.

Onoko is a molecule of imagination born at 24:01, in the utopian minute where imagination gives way to dreams. Made of a symbiotic duo, Manon Duparc & François Pain – it is a shared creative voice, a plea for an imaginary world in which every image is an invitation to go beyond perception.

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“Écume des Lumières” is an exhibition curated by MABE Gallery. Through their photographic series Percept, the artists explore the subtle, enigmatic atmospheres of light and color, capturing fleeting moments that transcend the visible world.​ Once figurative elements are stripped away, what remains is the essence of light, color, and sound. The images, unedited and composed solely of intricate gradients of color, nevertheless reveal a profound sensitivity to the details of “light and form” or “forms of light” as well as to the careful composition of ambiance.