mundane beauty
Manon Sas (1973) has a keen eye for finding beauty in the mundane.
With joyful ease and playing with contrasts, she immerses her audience
in diverse and exciting situations. Her work often takes you to uncanny
and off-places that at the same time convey a sense of serenity and stillness. Reality and fiction intertwine.
With her current project Under the Hedge, Manon is looking into Catholic children who died before they were baptised. There was no place for them in heaven and they could only be buried in unconsecrated ground, for example under or behind the hedge of the cemetery.
Manon was trained at Amsterdam Photo Academy and by photographer Milan Gies (ongoing) and completed several storytelling and illustration courses at Berlin art schools, including Universität der Künste and BtK University of Art and Design. She's a member of Collectief Studio 307, an Amsterdam-based group of photographers that work on individual long-term projects.
Assignments, collabs and personal projects include portraits,
documentary, street, conceptual photography, travel blogs
(for example about Albania and China) and illustrations.
Onder de heg - solo exhibition - Archeology Museum - 2024
Editie Noord - group exhibition Collectief Studio 307 2023
Memory - group exhibition Pulchri 2023
GUP/NEW photography talent 2022
Studio 307 Amsterdam group exhibition 2022
Tirana Photo Festival 2021 & 2022
Esthetiekprijs des Vaderlands 2021
Finalist De Beeldmakers - Parool & Vandejong 2020
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Manon Sas | Utrecht, The Netherlands