Alice Channer

Alice Channer (born 1977 in Oxford, lives and works in London) explores relationships between materials, bodies, machines, and industrial or technological processes in her sculptures, combining industrial objects with human gestures or natural traces such as physical or geological remnants. Channer persistently juxtaposes the organic and the artificial, the biological and the industrial, integrating the traces of production processes into the language of her sculptures. She not only confronts her artistic handwriting with the cold aesthetics of mechanical shaping but also alludes to the fragility of ecology with her seductive yet brittle exoskeletons. "Alice Channer" is the first comprehensive monographic catalog of the artist, published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at the two buildings of the Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle Appenzell, "Heavy Metals / Silk Cut," featuring new productions as well as works from the past twelve years. The publication invites readers to discover her process-oriented art through essays by Rosanna McLaughlin and Zoe Gray, an experimental text by Daisy Hildyard, and a conversation between Stefanie Gschwend and the artist.