Elsa-Louise Manceaux: Voice Notes

“Voice Notes” is an installation that pushes the boundaries of painting by integrating speech, text, typography, moving image, and sound.

For over ten years, artist Elsa-Louise Manceaux (Paris, 1985) has expanded painting from a strictly visual field into a media interface that engages in affective dialogues. In her practice, the history of traditional painting veers toward other forms of use and communication. Her work weaves together intimate and emotional relationships—mediated by chronological inconsistencies and, in “Notas de voz”, by vocal correspondence.

As the artist suggests in one of the aphorisms included in the installation, written as part of her ongoing practice: “Medium, voix, interface… relation” are concepts that overlap and collapse for thirty minutes across the canvases presented at Museo Jumex. “Notas de voz” examines distance—physical, emotional, and conceptual—and time as pictorial principles, as conditions inherent to contemporary communication. Operating between the informative and the affective, the public and the private, the “online” and the “offline,” Manceaux asks: Can painting function as a means of connection, as a form of social networking that exists within the vast trajectories of listening and memory? How does the history of our emotions register on the surface of a painting?