Private View in the Presence of the Artist
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For the third chapter of The Contemporary Wall, Antichità Alberto Di Castro is pleased to present Alice Anderson: Cosmic Connections, a show curated by Reine Okuliar and Denise Di Castro.
For the past two decades, Alice Anderson has been investigating relations between humans and non-humans, engaging into a dialogue with technological objects from meteorites and ancient tools to architectural elements and mobile phones. This longstanding awareness has led her to confront viewers to their relation to technology including AI.
The Pixels sculptures presented at Galeria Di Castro are the result of “Random Chromatic” performances, in which colours and shapes randomly meet through dance. This method references Alan Turing’s oracle machine. If Turing is known as the inventor of the computer as we know it, he asserted that it was meant to fail, encountering practical problems or a halting problem. The solution might lie in the Oracle Machine, an abstract machine able to solve problems in ways that may at first defy logic, the most advanced prototype thus far being the human brain.
The Technological Dances paintings are the result of performances where Anderson observes a technological object, that is any non-human entity that has augmented humans throughout history. Be it a flint or a drone, she pours liquid paint over it to liberate it from its primary functionality before dancing with it, imprinting on the canvas a record of their relationship.
The exhibition is an illustration of Anderson’s ability to poetically merge technology, ecology, and expanded consciousness through a multidisciplinary performative practice. For Anderson, the physical world itself thinks, remembers, and responds. Anderson explores new mental spaces in her performances. Much like in Indigenous cultures that perceive an animated essence in everything and a higher dimension of matter, she created 'hyper-spaces' where it becomes possible to restore deep, cosmic connections with all entities surrounding us.
ALICE ANDERSON
Alice Anderson (b. 1972 in France) lives and works in London. Anderson explores the relationship between humans and non-humans. Her performances are informed by ancestral cultures through an animist approach advocates a total reconnection to nature as she questions the modern technological enhancements of humankind. Her practice can be defined as all-encompassing and multidisciplinary, her paintings and sculptures relating to her research and performance.
Anderson’s works have been acquired and exhibited by international institutions.
Selection of Institutional Exhibitions
TECHNOLOGICAL DANCES, Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil, 2026 (upcoming); INTERNET CABLES, MacVal Museum, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 2026; CORPOS HUMANOS – NÃO HUMANOS, Centro Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Cultural Season France–Brazil, 2025; OPEN TO EYES, Centre Pompidou Málaga, Spain, 2025; SPIRITUAL URGENCY, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands, 2023; RÉSEAUX-MONDES, Centre Pompidou Paris, France, 2022; FEMALE POWER FIGURES, Musée d’Art Moderne, Fontevraud, France, 2021; NOMMÉS DU PRIX MARCEL DUCHAMP, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2020; TECHNOLOGICAL DANCES, Atelier Calder, France, 2019; G.P.S, Patinoire Royale, Brussels, Belgium, 2018; SUMMER EXHIBITION, RoyalAcademy of Arts, London, UK, 2017; DATA SPACE, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, 2015; MEMORY MOVEMENT MEMORY OBJECTS, Wellcome Collection, London, UK, 2014; MEMORISATIONS, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 2012.
