Alice Olausson
Artist b. 1994 in Sweden
Live and work in France and Copenhagen
Whatever happened to Bandit.
Video installation presented for the show À suivre, à surveiller curated by Eva Barois de Caevel. La Chapelle de la Miséricorde. Montpellier. 2022. Image courtesy: Yohann Gozard.
Whatever happened to Bandit. In-situ video installation. La Chapelle de la Miséricorde, Montpellier. 2022.
I was following a fox one night last summer, running through the suburbs of Berlin. I filmed it appearing in the bushes, carefully crossing a street. I decided to project the video onto the ruins of a damaged copy of Jusepe de Ribera's L'Adoration des Bergers.
Pomme injectée. Installation/display. 2022.
Roof panels, spray paint, metal bars, protection wrap. Variable dimensions. Waiting.
Svalbard/The happy and sad life of a painting, little bit messy and blue. Installation. 2020-2021.
This frontal installation also includes a work with lights. It was presented for the group show Lucy in the Sky at Musée Henri Prades in Lattes.
toile+é. Sculptural work. Ongoing. 121x121 cm.
I stumbled upon a stock photo of a kids' drawing of what seemed to be stars. I projected the image onto some paper sheets and started cutting out the same shape in different materials. This object, partly in iron, partly in wood, appears and reappears in different situations and whatever spatial arrangement I wish to surround it with.
Drawing.
Studio research with burned branches of wood and fragments of images. Analog photo printed on silk tissue paper.
Small and inconspicuous, compared to the fanciful ears. Petits et discrets, rien de spécial. Book-object. 2022.
During lockdown in 2021, I left the city to stay at my parent’s house at the Swedish countryside. I experienced a different kind of nightlife, quite vivid. I got in touch with Johan Eklöf, a Swedish bats' expert and researcher, to discuss images (my general obsession) and bats (my new obsession). He also handed me his doctoral thesis, Vision in echolocating bats. A description applied in the thesis by Johan to illustrate the eyes of the bat, "small and inconspicuous, compared to the fanciful ears" presented itself to me as a title. So I decided to make a book about this encounter. I present it in different ways for the viewer to bring home.
ASDF. Arrangement of book shelves painted in white. 2020.