Winnie Mo Rielly

“My new protruding spine is so beautiful. For the first time, I understand what it means to love one’s body.” — Mariana Enriquez, A Sunny Place for Shady People, 2025

Living and working in Paris, Winnie Mo Rielly (b. 1993, London) develops a practice at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and performance. She is interested in inhabited spaces and the presences in transformation, exploring forms of proximity that she converts into experiences of intimacy.

In her studio, she captures traces of her own body in motion. She uses these images as a material that she applies to organic structures. These objects, akin to sculptural stretchers, extend gestures and alter the perception of volumes. Presence never appears in its entirety: it is suggested through clues, following a logic of echoes.

For her first solo exhibition in a Parisian museum institution, Winnie Mo Rielly has conceived an installation bringing together recent works and new productions. She takes over the MEP Studio as a total environment that resists any immediate reading and acts as a counter-space. Like a theatrical set, the familiar becomes slightly uncanny. The works coexist in a quiet tension. The exhibition offers an experience of recomposition, where the gaze circulates and discovers an expanded body, extending into space, matter, and image.

The works coexist in a quiet tension. The exhibition offers an experience of recomposition, where the gaze wanders and discovers an expanded body, extending into space, matter, and image.

Trained at the École Duperré, Central Saint Martins in London, and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she received several awards and nominations, including the multimedia prize awarded by the Fondation de France, Winnie Mo Rielly is a laureate of the contemporary art prize of the FoRTE grant from the Île-de-France Region and the ADAGP Connexion France grant. Her recent group exhibitions include Galerie Hussenot, Miart (Milan, Italy), Alkinois (Athens, Greece), Frac Île-de-France – Les Réserves, Château La Coste, Magasins Généraux, Balice Hertling, Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, Fondation Fiminco, and the Camden Art Centre (UK), among others. Her works are part of collections such as the FRAC Île-de-France / Le Plateau, Christian Dior Parfums, Société Générale, and Maison Chaumet.