Author: Alice

2011/ Le Souffle (Breathtaken/ Atemlos)

Pictures of "Le Souffle" 
Video

“This work of art suspended is an experience to live where creative forces, sometimes chaotic, hesitant and brutal, interact, confront or come together in a common goal: to exist”.   Alice B.

Maison Des Arts D'Evreux

1- English Version: BREATHTAKEN

Installation for the 30th Anniversary of the Art Center of Normandy  (La Maison des Arts d’Évreux)

With her Art work, Alice tries to layout the spirit of a place through the people who work or (and) live there.For this reason, the Maison des Arts of Évreux has charged Alice B. to set up an installation for their 30th anniversary.  During 3 months, she observed, registered stories, and asked to be given any objects which would talk about the link between people and the place. She discovered that this “Maison” was offering the opportunity  to search for oneself….but what is more difficult?

2- Deutsche Version: der ATEMHAUCH

30jähriges Gründungsjubiläum de la Maison des Arts Solange-Baudoux, Évreux

Mit Ihrer Kunst versucht Alice Baillaud dem Geist der Menschen, die an einem Platz leben oder (und) arbeiten, Gestalt zu verleihen. Aus diesem Grund hat das Maison des Arts d’Evreux Normandie (eine Kunsthochschule in Evreux) sie eingeladen, eine Ausstellung anlässlich des 30jährigen Gründungsjubiläums zu inszenieren. Während dreier Monate beobachtete sie, zeichnete Geschichten auf, und forderte auf, ihr Gegenstände anzuvertrauen, die über die Beziehung zwischen den Menschen und dem Ort Auskunft geben könnten.

3- VIDEO

This short video shows how it  felt to go through, in and around “le SOUFFLE”

This video is made by Et Maxence

FRENCH PRESS  :

1- Read the article in the Journal des 30Ans

 2- Read the article in Paris Normandie- 11/08/ 2011:  À COUPER LE SOUFFLE

3- Read the article in La dépêche –  11/07/2011:  L’IMAGE: EFFET DE SOUFFLE

 


Berlin Exhibition @ WerkStadt Kulturverein

This exhbition happened in the Werkstadt in Neukölln, Berlin
First room

Silhouettes (Silhouetten) and Inconscious Creatures (Unbewusste Kreaturen) View the pictures

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Concept:  Through this work, french Alice Baillaud seeks to identify or highlight the uniqueness of each person through an act as trivial as walking.  « I often think of french Blaise Cendrars, who said:

It is in what people have most in common that they differ the most »

At once unknown and  recognizable, these figures which we belong animate the streets and squares of our cities in an ephemeral and everyday way. The work itself is a very fine black and white work where the main tool used by the artist is a blade which allows her to sratch through the stains of black ink, make some very fine lines as the characters slowly appear. The transparency is very important: it brings another depth to the drawings printed on 1,70m translucid films.

 

 

Second room

The second rooms shows a serie of black and white drawings from the serie Inconscious Creatures

 

 

 

These drawings were made during her art residency in Bretagne (France) in the Manor of  Plessix-Madeuc  between March and June 2010.

Concept : A bit like one sees creatures in the clouds, Alice has been looking at  the surfaces of the Manor and has carried them on her sheets of paper. Thus,  the old wooden step of the stairs to her studio, the tiled bathroom,  some granite stone of the exterior wall etc. gave birth to the Unconscious Creatures.

More drawings realised in the Manor of  Plessix-Madeuc

 V-Grenier-à-claires-voies

The Red Leaves River

Performance inside the Holocaust Memorial of Berlin. View more pictures.

red leaves river

The Red Leaves River was a perfomance inside the Memorial to the Murdered jews of Europe which occured the 25th of October 2010. The idea was to cover one of the deep alleys of the Memorial with red leaves of Virginia creeper which stains red many walls of Berlin in October : an ephemeral installation about the fragility of life.The strength of this project lies in the contrast between red and gray, leaf and concrete. I saw a river of souls, many visitors talked about a river of blood. It was an intense experience from a human and artistic perspective. The visitors were surprised and touched by the red river: many took pictures and stayed a moment to contemplate.

This project is a team effort and I want to give a warm thank you to the workteam…and especially my brother Ben, Detlef and Mark…and also Karsten, Jane, Doville, Benoît, Herman, Esra and Miu.