Alice Bandini was born in Nice (France) in 1988. She lives and works in the Paris region. A multidisciplinary artist, she is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de Paris-Cergy. From the fall of industrial production to the fall of its value, Alice Bandini is interested in all the notions to which the word "fall" refers.
By collecting discarded materials and giving them new contexts, she questions inert matter, its history and its temporality, weaving a parallel with the entropy of waste and our own vanities. During the collection process, she works on the symbolism of materials, reflecting on their history, their formation, sometimes their extraction, but above all their exploitation: what machines were used to cut them up? By whose hands were they eliminated, made invisible?
Sculptures, installations and prints are the media she uses to establish a link with what is alive in the materiality of these contemporary ruins and decommissioned materials. During her residency at the Cité internationale des arts, she is developing the research for her new installation project, following on from the series of installations she has been producing for several years.
Alice Bandini has exhibited her work in various galleries and artist-run spaces in the Paris region, is a winner of the Prix Dauphine pour l'art contemporain (2017), and was in residence at Bandjoun Station in Cameroon in 2011 and at La Villa Belleville in Paris in 2019-2020.
More recently, she took part in the exhibition Sillons en 2022 (Fertile - co-curated by Laure Boucomont and Elora Weill-Engerer) and the Artocène project, an exhibition Le vide comme repère (2023) in Chamonix Mont-Blanc (co-curated by Laurène Maréchal and Laetitia de Choqueuse).