Alice Guittard
Based in ParisIn 2018, during an exhibition trip to Turkey, Guittard’s encounter with airport customs—who forced her to destroy the chemicals used in her photographic practice—led to a pivotal shift in her approach. Visiting Ottoman palaces rich with inlaid marquetry, she began training with a marble worker, developing a tactile language that merges imagery with stone. This moment marked the beginning of her ongoing exploration into the symbolic and material potential of marble’s veined surfaces.
Guittard’s practice intertwines memory, architecture, and fiction. She inventories domestic interiors she has inhabited or observed, rendering them as totemic spaces through flattened drawings and symbolic objects. Her work echoes Georges Perec’s call to question the everyday—inviting reflection on the origins, meanings, and fates of the things that surround us. At the core of her practice lies a deep engagement with the soul of objects, the layers of personal and collective memory, and the evolving history of representation.
b. 1986, Nice, France
Marble, burnt wood, steel
35 x 20 x 1 ⅝ in.
Un ete grec, les mains 2023
Marble inlay
26 ⅜ x 24 x 1 in.