Alice Anderson was born in London, brought up in the South of France, and currently lives and works in London.

"I recount stories that border on the absurd, the ludicrous, the nonsensical. My fictions where the uncanny reigns, have found their inspiration in ideas of childhood. Their constructions are often directly connected to aspects of games or play, using an amateur-like approach."

Through the darkness of the crypt the spectator can hear the distant sound of female laughter. Alice says: "when our senses are engaged by sound alone, without visuals, the human brain always produces mental images to fill the gap." She describes this phenomena as " a way of doing your own film, but only in your head." Her sound piece, called 'Catch me if you can' (May, 2003), was produced especially for the space, and reveals a key theme in Alice's work. Alice produces videos, drawings, short books and installations in which she offers the audience a rather disturbing race back and forth between the real and the imaginary.

Alice received the Gilles Dusein award in 2001. In 2002 she had a solo show at the Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris. She has also participated in a number of group exhibitions and film festivals, including: the Museum of Modern Art of Paris, the Oberhausen Festival in Germany, and the Pompidou Centre. In September 2003 she will be part of the Jean Cocteau retrospective also at the Pompidou Centre with her new film 'Seance'. She is currently studying for an M.A. in Fine Art at Goldsmith's.

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