collaborations – ENVERS COMPAGNIE

The Crown letter

THE CROWN LETTER was born in April 2020, at the dawn of the Covid crisis,

as shock and desolation paralyzed minds.

The urgent realization took hold of French artist Natacha Nisic that

a collective and international response had to be forged.

In times of catastrophe, art cannot retreat; in times of suffocation,

it must breathe and diffuse its oxygen.

Without means, without institutional support,

Natacha Nisic envisioned a website and immediately turned

to artist friends from all countries and generations.

Around her, a collective swiftly formed,

without a conductor or an editorial line,

driven by a shared necessity.

With The Crown Letter, they invent an open-contoured “we”.

As months passed, the dialogue deepened, collective works emerged.

The Crown Letter reveals itself as an online exhibition,

releasing each week a surge of new creations:

videos, photographs, sculptures, poetry, and prose.

It stands as a polyphonic manifesto.

**UNEASY IS THE HEAD**

**Manuela Morgaine – The Crown Letter**

Future Aleppo

A project conceived by Syrian filmmaker Waad al-Kateab

as part of ACTION FOR SAMA in response to the wish of a child,

a survivor of the war that devastated his homeland,

who dreams of becoming an architect and rebuilding Aleppo.

Equinox(es) Fondation Thalie

Online poetic readings initiated by

Barbara Polla and Nathalie Guiot, director of the Fondation Thalie,

during the 2020–2021 lockdown period.

LISTEN:

FRAGILE – NOVEMBER 14, 2020 – PODCAST –

TRANSFORMATIONS – JANUARY 21, 2021 – PODCAST –

CLOSE ONES – APRIL 21, 2021 – PODCAST –

The pain of the others

Presentation dossier

With you

prayer for our girls

concept & voice: Manuela Morgaine
music & soundscape: Michaël Grébil

When it happened in Nigeria April 14th 2014,
I couldn’t pronounce BRING BACK OUR GIRLS.
I could only Pray for our girls.
I couldn’t pray without pronouncing your names, more than two hundred.
I couldn’t pray without asking Michaël Grébil to compose music for this prayer.
WITH YOU.

Manuela Morgaine, Paris, France, August 2014.