Born in 1990 to an Ivorian father and a Guadeloupean mother, Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien grew up between Abidjan and Paris, and she now lives and works in Paris. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Cergy, the artist has developed an ambitious, sensitive and polymorphous personal practice. Creator of new forms, explorer of materials and signs, Manlanbien defines herself as a storyteller of poems. Like labyrinths or rebuses, her works compose new topographies around the themes of femininity, identity and the body—at the crossroads of her Caribbean and West African heritage. On the border of sculpture, weaving and installation, her practices helps us to navigate the meanders of poetic narratives, of losing the landmarks that have been bequeathed to us, perhaps in order to better redraw a path of a life that is our own.