Manon Clement (1997, BE) obtained her Master Textile Design at Luca School Of Arts, Ghent, in 2020. Her works have been exhibited in several places. In 2022, she did a residency at the Frans Masereel center for which she received a grant from the Flemish Government.

The techniques Clement mainly works with are jacquard weaving, industrial knitting, screen printing, and also sound. 

Manon Clement's work will always start from the word and will further develop in the space of textiles. Poetic words are always in search of a tangibility, for a place where they create meaning. By adding words to a material she involves her viewers in the conceptual meaning of her work, in this way an attempt at dialogue is created. 

Words and images want to redeem themselves from the transience. These images come from Clement's personal image archive, by making them unrecognizable she can create a distance in the work. With a conceptual approach, she wants to strengthen the questioning of the viewer by connecting poetic images to the words and textiles, these images balance on the edge of recognition and alienation. 

Words connect themselves to textiles and become interwoven in the context and connotations that textiles have to offer. The word always needs a surface, a space, in order not to get lost in its transience. The materials make words visible and tangible. Words are given existence, they are given a space. Without these spaces, words are lost in their multiplicity and transience. Textiles give lost words a space. Written or printed words are given existence. Words are caught in a defined space from which they cannot escape