Mezzanine Sud – Prix des Amis des Abattoirs

For Mezzanine Sud, she brings together a group of paintings and metal sculptures which revolve around Occitan folklore and the presence of the fantastic in the everyday. Since her childhood, Alison Flora considers drawing as an escape, a space where anything is possible. Fairies, magicians, monsters, demons and parallel worlds come to life in series of drawings inspired by Tolkien’s fantasy literature, video games, punk and metal cultures. His attraction to alternative and popular universes also allows her to summon the symbolist painter Boleslas Biegas alongside the artist Genesis P-Orridge or the poet Roland Topor.

By introducing blood into her drawing practice, she gives a whole new status to this vital fluid, which carries within it an instinctive emotional force and transforms the act of painting into an almost physical communion with the medium. Blood, vector of a synesthetic relationship with iron, another key material in her work, acts as a catalyst for the creative act. It also expresses a contemporary hell (stress, social anxiety, trauma, anguish…) that the artist transcribes through this obsessive and cathartic practice of drawing, but also through videos and installations.


Extract traducted from the cartel notice for the group show Mezzanine Sud – Prix des Amis des Abattoirs, les Abattoirs, Musée-Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse, France