Solène Langlais was born in Nantes in 1994. She is a visual artist and performer who now lives and works between Paris and Normandy. Her work focuses on representations of boxing in film and television, the notion of the gaze in boxing films, the gendered distribution of roles, and the porosity between fiction, television, and the reality of boxing clubs. It navigates between visual arts, textiles, writing, and performance. Solène Langlais reproduces gestures, images, objects, and words taken from boxing films and televised fights in order to appropriate them and observe what the (inevitable) discrepancy with the original produces.
She formed the group MANTE with artist Valdo Savoye-Gavarini. Together, they design editorial objects, performances, and organize events.