Alexandra Pellissier

Alexandra Pellissier was born in 1981, she lives and works in Marseille and Roybon (FR)

“A work of vision is optics.

For me, optics is defined as a constructive capacity that first unfolds in the apprehension of the world. Each person thus captures, with a glance, their limits and stages their own personal scenography around scenes they choose to see in their inner representations.
Each of us offers ourselves a capture of what might be visible—constructed reiterations in spite of a universe too vast to grasp in a fixed shot.
Optics is also a gaze projected outward, toward the universe; the eye traces and unfolds lines and volumes—the eye transforms the universe into a landscape for the eye. The eye gives scale to expanse.
Landscape is architecture, infinite interlacings are our urban weavings. My work is precisely aimed at these kinds of landscapes—my eye captures volumes and lines according to my focus, then organizes them into constructed forms, at times aiming to merge with general architecture, or to extract details as material for construction.
The urban environment is the terrain where I experiment with the process of looking—a process that traces and creates a universe where human staging unfolds.
My objects are not intended to elucidate the process; they are part of it and aim to become visible within it. Nevertheless, my work is above all rooted in a poetic dimension; technique is only the means for a more essential desire.
Like all human architectures, this technical dimension conditions reality as expanse. Expanse gives substance to the gaze; it is through a dialectic between the body and expanse that the gaze constructs the human.
Poetry is what yearns to extend beyond necessity. What is looked at becomes real—that is why I wish to encourage the eye toward a particular kind of urbanism.” - Alexandra Pellissier

Alexandra Pellissier’s work in on display during the exhibitions Rémi Bragard, Anatole Maillot & Alexandra Pellissier, 2005 ; Sylvain Ciavaldini, Anthony Duchêne, Yannick Papailhau, Alexandra Pellissier - offsite, 2008 and Après avoir tout oublié [After having forgotten everything], 2015.