Percept Op. 19, Switzerland, 2020
"Wandering at the borderline where images soar into imaginary, our one-soul duo, Onoko, thrives on heeding atmospheres from here and beyond. Spellbound by its alchemical might, we seek relentlessly to insulate its quintessence."
Onoko
Onoko wants to make a plea for the imaginary through each of its creations. For their main photographic series, 'Percept', Manon and François press the shutter when an atmosphere overwhelms their soul, already obscuring anything figurative that would make the shots trivial. For them, we witness the formless soul of the void which is in essence, light, color and sound. The subsequently unedited images, which thus consist solely of complex color degradations, nevertheless exhibit a great sensitivity to atmosphere and its composition, in which their years of training as architects take a prominant stance.