Mansan

"Mansan’s work explores the feminine dimension through a blend of figurative forms and symbolic imagery. Themes of motherhood, matrilineality, spirituality, and mythology emerge as recurring threads, deeply rooted in personal and ancestral memory.

Her practice is intimate and reflective - a quiet invocation of the sacred and the unseen within womanhood."

MEET

Mansan

Mansan (b. 1988) is a contemporary African artist working across painting and sculpture, currently based in the Netherlands. Born to an Ivorian mother and French father, Mansan's practice is shaped by her bicultural upbringing, having spent most of her early life in Ivory Coast before continuing her studies in France and Montreal.

Her academic path led her through a degree in Interior Design from the École de Condé in Paris and the University of Montreal, but her artistic calling soon shifted towards fine art. Embracing drawing, painting, and sculptural exploration, Mansan's work began gaining recognition in 2015 with exhibitions in Montreal, eventually extending to international art fairs and galleries.

Her art is a vivid reflection of diasporic identity, memory, and belonging. Through her figurative and abstract compositions, she interrogates the body as a vessel of personal and collective history, often navigating themes of womanhood, displacement, and cultural hybridity. Whether through textured canvases or emotive clay forms, Mansan’s visual language fuses her African heritage with European influences in a way that is both intimate and politically resonant.

Today, her works are part of private collections worldwide, from Europe to North America and West Africa, marking her as a rising voice in the global contemporary African art scene. As both a female sculptor and Ivorian painter, Mansan continues to carve out space for nuanced narratives that celebrate complexity, transformation, and the richness of cultural intersection.

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