Double V Gallery, Marseille
Alice Guittard, Thomas Mailaender
Double V Gallery presents two artists whose practices explore the circulation of images, material memory, and the subtle transformations of surfaces. Each artist develops a particular focus on supports and the gestures of translation: images displaced from one context to another, materials transformed, landscapes reinterpreted.
Based in Marseille and active internationally, Thomas Mailaender presents a new body of work devoted to the imagery of the sailboat. The image no longer just represents the boat: it inhabits its very support. These floating surfaces evoke the imagery of Mediterranean leisure, the history of navigation, and contemporary movements, all with the humor and critical distance blended with popular culture that characterize his work.
Through her marble marquetry windows, Alice Guittard offers a sensitive exploration of the Mediterranean landscape. Through meticulous stone inlay work, she composes fragmented views that evoke suspended moments of contemplation. By transforming stone, a material associated with permanence, into an almost pictorial surface, she introduces a subtle tension between solidity and fleeting perception.
Together, their booth creates a space where poetic fragments intersect with collective memory, with Marseille operating as a subtle Mediterranean horizon of circulation and projection.
