Alice Guittard's practice evolves over time, depending on who she meets, what she reads and what she wants to believe. For her, exhibitions are synonymous with expeditions. Her desire to push back the boundaries by inventing a new format and a new language each time, is a way for her to bring out surprising analogies in the viewer. Day after day, she persists in creating evidence of a fact that has not happened. She offers us something that is right there in front of our eyes and that no one else can see. Forms present themselves to her and she sets about giving them a new destiny, like the toys of a mad god.

The superimposition of signs and materials creates a narrative overflow, estranging it from its original context, yet stemming from it. In a similar way, the images created by Alice Guittard (b. 1986, France) are suggested by the material itself. The artist is fascinated by the mineral world, in which the destiny of the image seems to be enclosed: the veins of the marble seem to contain in nuce the figure that the artist will extrapolate from it, in this case a tarot figure, which alludes to the same ability to glimpse one's destiny—but in the cards and their combinations. Chance, fate, the ability to listen and interpret, contrainte, and manual talent intertwine in the work.

Alice Guittard

La chaise, 2022