The main subject of the work of Garance Alves is the concept of second skin. She is interested in any object linked with the body, such as fabric and garments. The latter are considered as vehicles for fragments of stories.
She also implements protocols which could almost be considered as sociological. She asked different people to participate.
She tries to create inversed portraits.She invites the spectator to have a look at some personal belongings and then to imagine the owners.
The concept of space is also present in her work in various ways. We can observe a simultaneous definition of the body by space and space by the body.
She also tackles the notion of space through memory, the memory of a body at a specific moment while moving. Thus this is a visual fixing of a past action.
This attraction for space and body naturally led her to dance. She tries to capture the movement and transcribe it visually.
Education
2017 Master in Drawing with honors, École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre,
Brussels, BE
2015 Bachelor with distinction (Diplôme National d’Art Plastique), Ecole Supérieure d’Art
de Clermont Métropole, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Group exhibitions
2017 Les Recombinants, online exhibition and projected in the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain de Marseille (ART-O-RAMA), La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
C&D - Callirohé et Diboutadès, La Vallée, Brussels, BE
Nu, With the complicity of Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Bussels, BE
Festival nos yeux grands ouverts, Centre Artasia, Paris, FR
Se fendre la gueule, Hôtel du Département, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
2016 La couleur en mouvement, Maison des expositions, Cébazat, FR
2015 Paysages, Maison des Comtes, Orcet, FR
Awards
2017 Second award for the video Fragments in Festival nos yeux grands ouverts, Centre
Artasia, Paris, FR
Publishing
2017 Plus qu'un nébuleuse avant la fin, Collectif fanzine, Editions de la Maquerelle
2016 Par-delà des forêts toutes noires, Collectif fanzine, Editions de la Maquerelle
2015 Le mal des mers, Collectif fanzine, Editions de la Maquerelle
Workshops
2017 CreArt workshop with Katarzyna Kozyra in Lublin, PL
Drawing with Aleksandra Chaushova, BE
2016 Drawing with Céline Gillain and David de Tscharner, BE
2015 Video with Régine Abadia, FR
2013 Video with Jean Teddy Phillip, FR
2012 Color with Nicolas Guiet, FR
Drawing with Emmanuel Régent, FR
2011 Drawing with Abdel Kader Benchama, FR
Training, assistantship
2017 Assistantship of Elodie Antoine, visual artist, Brussels, BE
2014 Engraving training with Michel Brugerolles, visual artist, Clermont-Ferrand,FR
2013 Training on the shooting of short film 15 francs, des fleurs et une culotte de Maude
Garnier produced by Offshore, Clermont-Ferrand,FR
2013 Training on the shooting of short film Rechute de Jérôme Nunes produced by les Films
de Force Majeure, Clermont-Ferrand,FR
Web: https://www.garance-alves.com/
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