Alice Channer: Out of Body

[En anglais]

To describe Out of Body as a smattering of limbs and organs would be both accurate and unsatisfactory. Indeed, the works might be titled Eyes, Arms, Thighs and Lungs but they exist as a whole from which no one element could be severed. There is a curatorial unity to the exhibition — orchestrated by the artist — which lends it the cohesive character of an installation, a body of work as well as a metaphorical human body. 

Yet this human body is not represented in any kind of figurative manner. There is, rather, an absence of the body, a suggestion of the incarnated presence of the artist, as the work bears the trace of her own physicality and its relationship to materials. “The work is me,” Channer says, “breathing, feeling and thinking with, through, and as part of, the processes and materials that make up the industrial world that I live in and that constitute my work.”