From the sky to the earth, visual artist and photographer Manolo Chrétien is fascinated by the effects of gravity on the elements. Atmospheric pressure, material deformation, distortion, clouds, currents, winds, waves, fluid dynamics, erosion... all these terms have accompanied his daily life since his birth at the end of the runway at Orange Air Base in 1966. Manolo describes himself thus: “I am eternally amazed, capturing the unexpected and composing with the uninterrupted gaze of a child… A tracker of fluidity, I am definitively guided by the ephemeral transformation of the elements.” Raised between the Mediterranean and the English Channel, Manolo Chrétien was raised on kerosene at the end of the Orange runway, where he fell from the sky in 1966. He developed a passion for photography the day his father, returning from Moscow in the 1980s, gave him a "Lomo," a camera used by the KGB, which has since become legendary. A visual artist at heart, he pursued art studies at ENSAAMA Olivier-de-Serres in Paris. There, he met his wife, Céline-Pia, with whom he founded a graphic design agency in 1991 and shared his artistic life. They have also been creating works together since 2015 under the name Man&Pia.