ALICE COURTOIS

Alice Courtois’ work originates in her fascination with shared spaces that exist only temporarily: family kitchens during winter gatherings, rearranged living rooms during celebrations, improvised tables that expand to include unexpected guests. These early experiences shaped her understanding of environment as something constructed collectively rather than architecturally.

Working exclusively with printed media already circulating in the world, Courtois reorganises fragments of magazines, brochures and domestic imagery into alternative landscapes. Her compositions do not invent new worlds so much as rearrange the familiar until it becomes inhabitable again.

In the WONDER series, these constructed environments function as quiet refuges rather than escapes. They suggest that comfort can be assembled deliberately from the materials already available to us.

Her collages behave like small climates: temporary, precise and shared.