Description
My paintings tell insignificant, mundane, common, everyday, general stories. Present moments that populate life. I play with matter and colors. Quickly, too quickly. Spontaneity at the expense of craftsmanship. Capturing a moment before it fades away. Impulsive painting and structures that are not very stable. A whole, a unity. Imposing, fragile, like life-sized emotions. Raw material to paint all those moments where there is nothing but ordinary life. Hyper-present. Everyday, joyful, boring, or irritating. Moments spat onto paper, painted with hands. The desire to dive into it. To bring forth forms in a cacophony of confusion, memories, emotions. An immersion in the mundane. A satisfaction of the incomplete. Starting from nothing to provoke unity.
Biography
Alice Guérin, born in 1994 in Paris, creates installations from paintings and eclectic materials to compose multiple environments that go beyond the flatness of the canvas. She often involves herself physically in her projects, either by building her immersive installations or in her paintings by painting directly with her hands and feet. She is interested in and writes about simple moments with stories revolving around absence, nothingness, and blandness. She obtained her master’s degree at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin Mulhouse in 2018. She recently completed a residency at Pollen (Monflanquin) and has exhibited at Hangar in Liège and Espace Lebeau in Brussels. Her works have already been shown at regionale 23 “we are so many here” at Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, and in a temporary in-situ installation at Landschaftspark in Basel.
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