Artist: Stéphanie Mansy

The Art & Futur space at Galleria Continua invites all audiences to experience art and engage in dialogue with local communities. The gallery fosters exchanges between local actors and international networks, creating a platform for collectively imagining the present and future.

Welcoming Stéphanie Mansy into Galleria Continua’s spaces has once again brought attention to the dense and layered landscape surrounding the gallery. This is a place marked by the flow of the Grand Morin River, whose course has nourished human activities along its banks since the 14th century.

Mansy's intervention traces these two parallel trajectories — human and natural, through a dual lens of documentary research and artistic exploration. Central to her approach is a profound interest in paper, which she uses as a true artistic medium, exploring its history, physical properties, limits, and possibilities. This curiosity led her to seek out remnants of industrial archaeology from the machines that once powered the former paper mill of Moulin de Boissy. Watermark rollers, mechanical components, archival photographs, and other artifacts from the collection of the Association des Compagnons Papetiers de Croëvecœur et du Marais are displayed as tangible witnesses of this industrial past, arranged in such a way as to formally engage with Mansy’s own artworks.