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Monah Maucouvert · Visual artist · Paris, France

Blue is not just a colour. It is a passage.

Painting, film and writing around a single colour, since 2012.

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Portrait of a young woman with curly hair, painted in ultramarine and white on a matte gold ground.

Untitled (portrait on gold ground)

Recent works2026

Statement

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Blue has been at the centre of my research since 2012. Neither a mere colour nor an aesthetic effect, it has become an inner territory, a space between sky and ocean, between falling and rising.

Water, golden light and the mirror sometimes set into the canvas open a dialogue between the work and the person looking at it.

A blue bottle bursting with dark roses at the heart of a swirl of waves.

Water

Details · Que les vagues vous emportent
Portrait of a young woman with curly hair, painted in ultramarine and white on a matte gold ground.

Golden light

Details · Untitled (portrait on gold ground)
Blue bust of Venus whose face is made of mirror shards, beneath ultramarine and gold hair.

The mirror

Details · Les yeux sont le miroir de l’âme

Chosen works

All works
Blue portrait with short hair, paint dripping like a crown.

Comme un garçon

 Round canvas with a gold ground: a blue figure with curly hair, a clock hand set on the face.

Untitled (tondo)

Recent works
Blue female face crossed by strands of wet hair.

Il pleut

 Blue watercolour portrait with a direct gaze and short hair.

Je suis atypique

Selected works
Woman in a large blue wide-brimmed hat decorated with flowers, on a pearly ground.

L’ennui est un luxe ou la capeline

Selected works

 Night-blue stormy sky above a pale sea.

Une lueur d’espoir

Selected works2020

Series

The Quest for Spirituality

The spiritual quest runs through my work like an invisible thread.

Through blue, I look for a space of elevation, a point of balance between matter and light, between grounding and transcendence.

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Ultramarine female face with long wavy hair on a gold ground.

Untitled (The Quest for Spirituality I)

 Blue face outlined in white strokes on a gold ground.

Untitled (The Quest for Spirituality II)
Portrait of Modka in blue light, wearing a white fur coat, in front of a painted canvas.

Films

A blue cinema, poetic and nomadic

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Poster for the 5th Bleu Paris Festival, 5–6 March 2027 at Le Grand Rex: blue reflections on water.

Curatorial project · since 2023

Bleu Paris

An international short film festival devoted to the colour blue, founded by Modka in 2023. Each year, French and international films answer one another around a single colour.

Next edition

Edition
5th edition, Furieusement bleu
Date
5 – 6 March 2027
Venue
Cinéma Le Grand Rex, 1 boulevard Poissonnière, 75002 Paris
Cover of Éternellement bleu, a collective collection of blue poetry.

Éternellement Bleu

Book, 2026

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About

Exhibitions

  1. 2025

    Galerie Montesquieu, Agen

    Solo exhibition

  2. 2024

    Festival Bleu Paris, Paris

    Group exhibition

  3. 2023

    Festival Bleu Paris, Paris

    Curatorial project

  4. 2021

    The Holy Art Gallery, London

    Group exhibition

  5. 2020

    L’Expression de l’Eau, La Tremblade

    Solo exhibition

About

Press

In the press

« Un véritable parcours initiatique, teinté de rêve et de poésie. »
Richard Bohan, Le Petit Bleu, June 2025
  • Monah Maucouvert considers her work to be her outlet, constantly evolving to express her emotional state. Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 99, 2021
  • Her work constantly evolves to express her emotional state. Each mood is ephemeral, symbolised by movement and represented by water, inviting a cathartic emotional reaction in the viewer. Aesthetica Magazine, Issue 67, 2015

Exhibitions · acquisitions · collaborations

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