How to Disappear Like a Chameleon - Alice Leteissier
04/03-18/03
THE UNKNOWN MECHANISM IS YOU
Chameleons are able to actively tune the light response of a lattic of nanocrystals on the exterior of their skin.
This tuning’s main purpose is to signal their feelings and intentions to other chameleons.
Everything from thirst to submission, from pride to being overheated, is expressed in this fashion.
The molecular mechanism that allows for this tuning, this alteration of the light’s wavelength as it is reflected off the chameleon’s skin is still unknown.
Don’t blend in. Take a sip.
Text by Peter Belly.
Alice Leteissier is a French and Swedish multidisciplinary artist born in 1998.
She is currently based in Athens after having worked in Amsterdam, where she graduated from the Fine Arts department of the Gerri Rietveld Academie (NL) in 2022.
Her practice revolves mainly around painting and installation.
Despite her claim that making pretty paintings is her only concern, her work is an inquiry into agency, subjectivity, and the variou notions of unity inherent in our ability to perceive and generate meaning.
She is currently based in Athens after having worked in Amsterdam, where she graduated from the Fine Arts department of the Gerri Rietveld Academie (NL) in 2022.
Her practice revolves mainly around painting and installation.
Despite her claim that making pretty paintings is her only concern, her work is an inquiry into agency, subjectivity, and the variou notions of unity inherent in our ability to perceive and generate meaning.
