KLERVIE MOUHO

Klervie Mouho is an Ivorian-French artist and designer.

Born in Côte d’Ivoire and raised in Abidjan, she later moved to Angers, France, where she graduated with distinction from the École des Beaux-Arts d’Angers (TALM) in 2021. In 2023, she completed a Master’s degree in Visual Communication at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) in Zurich. Her work was recognized with the ZHdK Fund 2023 for international and intercultural student projects, as well as second prize in the Förderpreis 2023. She is also part of the ZHdK Incubator “Next Steps” 2024 program.

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Mouho works primarily with pastel drawing, alongside painting and photography. Her practice explores memory as a shifting, layered territory — where personal recollections intersect with collective history. She draws from both intimate family archives and broader socio-political contexts, including memories of political unrest and military uprisings in Côte d’Ivoire during her childhood.

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Her works are marked by vibrant color palettes and faceless figures, evoking a sense of nostalgia while resisting fixed identity. Inspired by photographs from family albums or the endless scroll of images stored on her phone, she creates compositions in which recurring scenes reappear, never identical, suspended between reality and imagination.

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Through this process of transformation and reinvention, Mouho blurs the boundaries between documentation and fiction, allowing memory to become both fragile and resilient — a space where personal history and collective experience quietly converge.