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Manon Bellet: The Consequnce of Smell

December 16, 2021  /  Cicada Radio

Manon Bellet is an interdisciplinary artist and native of Switzerland. She has lived and worked in New Orleans since 2016. In 2019 she started her olfactory project, entitled “Golden Waste,” Bellet focused on this idea of scent as it relates to memories, place and change. By extracting scents from strategically chosen historic areas in Louisiana affected by coastal erosion. She works especially in close collaboration with the fishing communities. Her works were shown at the The New Orleans Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, Good Children Gallery and in many Art institutions In France, Germany and Switzerland.

Bellet is a recipient of several artist residencies and fellowships in New Orleans. Joan Mitchell Center, Monroe Fellowship from Tulane University, A Studio in the Woods. She has been awarded for many international residencies at Citée des Arts, Paris, Residency Program, Berlin, Residency Program, Warsaw, Poland. She obtained a BA/MFA from the University of the Arts, ECAV, CH.

tags / smells, scents, perfume, dirt, South Louisiana, fishermen, cow, Mississippi River, Mississippi Delta, ephemera, Joan Mitchell Center, climate change, memory