Intent on animating the inert, I put the modalities of the gaze under microscopic scrutiny. Guided by a spirit of bricolage and with an economy of means, I call forth an unfolding plot. Light as a source of images and a tangible material to be worked and the manifest presence of the body are two main axis of this practice's research, which takes shake by way of various individual as well as collective creation forms—such as photography, video, installation and public art. My collaboration projects generate sensible spaces between disciplines from where I explore the possible effects and affects of the performed image in resonance with bodies, music and voices in movement.

Over the past twenty years, Manon De Pauw's work has been exhibited at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Galerie de l'UQAM, the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, among others, and has been shown at festivals such as the FIFA, RVQC and FIMAV. She has collaborated with choreographer Danièle Desnoyers, composer and musician Joane Hétu, playwright Denis Lavalou and poet Marc André Brouillette. Along with the choreographer Pierre-Marc Ouellette she put together the performances La matière ordinaire (Usine C, 2014), Cocons somatique (Agora de la danse, 2017) and Danses kaléidoscopiques (VOX and Théâtre Gilles-Vigneault, 2022). Living in Montreal, Manon De Pauw is a professor at École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l'UQAM where she co-founded the Labo lumière [creations + interdisciplinary research].