Blue moves through the exhibition as a single body with shifting densities: electric, nocturnal, abyssal. It becomes the shared space between air and water, between the surface that trembles and the depth that presses inward — the ocean above, the ocean below. Not two places, but two states of the same silence.
OPENING THURSDAY, 28 MAY, 18.00-20.00
AT BILDHALLE ZURICH
THE ARTIST DUO WILL BE PRESENT.
Onoko is the artist duo Manon Duparc and François Pain. Born in France, they met during their studies in Geneva – she studied interior architecture and design, while he studied architecture. Sharing the same sensibility on every level, they began dreaming of a joint artistic practice, which since 2017 has been devoted entirely to photography.
Manon and François press the shutter when a mood touches their soul. Already at the moment the photograph is taken, figuration dissolves, leaving behind only the relationship between color and light. Their works border on abstract impressionism. Reduced to complex color gradients, the deliberately unedited images reveal a profound sensitivity to atmosphere and composition and advocate for an imaginary world in which each image invites the viewer to expand perception.
The exhibition brings together four series: Percept is an exploration of emptiness as a volume in which magic unfolds – for color has always inhabited emptiness. Bleu Nuit visualizes the moment of withdrawal, when everything dissolves into a deep blue abyss. Contre Nuit explores the duality between earth and sky – the horizon where the shadow of the mountains meets the delicate pigments of the sky. The sculptural works in Bleu de Mémoire fossilize light as it settles into matter: light transformed into stone.
What unites all four series is their departure from figuration – not through erasure, but through transformation. As if color were returning to what it has always been: a language older than language itself. The exhibition is an invitation to see with the soul, to hear with the eyes, and to follow the sound and dance of color.
