As part of the Month of French Culture in Cuba, the Musée national des arts décoratifs de La Habana is presenting an exhibition on the representation of Marie Antoinette in Cuban public collections. Porcelain sculptures will evoke this emblematic queen.
In dialogue with this specific study by Cuban curator Gustavo Lopez, Olivier Perpoint of the ICI International Cultural Institute, proposes Noli me tangere, an installation by French artist Alice Guittard, recipient of the second prize of the Emerige 2017 Revelations Grant. A contemporary look is taken at this queen, the fantasy she has produced in the history of France and the world, and her destiny.
Alice Guittard's work is always borrowed from literary, archaeological and random research. She explored French public collections online and in situ.
The installation proposes a labyrinth of large printed silk panels, a series of nipple pots / arched breasts in reference to those delivered in 1788 by the Sèvres factory for the dairy of the Château de Rambouillet, marble and glass tears of Murano mirror in reference to the Expiatory Chapel of the Conciergerie whose walls are entirely painted with false black marble covered with silver holes and a sculpture in relation to the famous sentence of the queen: "Without bread, they eat brioche! ", little known beyond the borders of France.
Elements of this installation will be added to the Cuban national collections. The exhibition will also be in a virtual version on Artsy.net.
Alice Guittard (France) is a recipient of the Visual Arts Committees of the Cité internationale des arts.