Alice Schÿler Mallet

Visual artist, curator | France

Alice Schÿler Mallet is an artist and a curator . Her artistic research is directed towards her interests in the body and space, the energetic charge of certain materials and their influences on body and space, and the function of materials and their use. She deliberately distorts certain materials to produce distance and blur . She is interested in the phenomenon of light, memory, and all energy becoming form, all invisibility taking a physical shape. She uses mediums such as video, textile, photography, painting, as well as construction materials such as tar, reflective paint or anti-slip material, or used material like cast-off fishing nets, cotton or lace, to create site-specific installations that have a clear relation to places and their history.

She has shown her work in Gallery Avivson  and Mamia Bretesche in Paris, France, Klaus Strickner in Vienna,  Austria, Mandal Gallery in Norway, The Malmö Art Center in Sweden , Gallery Lec tic tic in Nouméa, New Caledonia as well as in Mexico, Dubaï and many festivals and events in Paris and  Normandy (DIVA, Video Appart, Days of Patrimony, Mois de l’Image, etc.)

As a curator, her work has been towards interdisciplinarity, creating encounters between artists, scientists, critics, historians, musicians, architects, urban planners, landscapers, film makers, performers. She invites people to study a subject, a place or an historical period from different perspectives and to share their experiences and find a new analytic framework concerning landscape, architecture, patrimony, memory, and the role of the artist in these different matters. The events that are thus created are at the border of fiction and documentary, in relationship with the inhabitants and the places, open to many interpretations but rooted in specific contexts.

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