Alice Odilon

I oppose colonization and have been actively working against it since 1986. Through self-portraits that caricature me, I represent trapped and diminished African people.

As an activist for PETA, I also plant trees and strive to save endangered animals.

My lens reveals the fracture lines in the mythology of the “Fake Masters” — Hirst, Koons, Banksy, Sherman — exposing the performative, market-driven spectacles that masquerade as cultural progress. My practice engages with themes of trauma, anorexia, fractured self-identity, and the silent violence of familial and social systems that cultivate narcissism and privilege.
My photographs resist easy consumption; they demand presence, pause, and confrontation. They are survival and resilience documents shaped by my struggle with a cold, wealthy family. Yet beneath this conflict lies an enduring thread of hope: the possibility of beauty emerging from rupture, and of selfhood reconstructing itself from the shards of familial betrayal.
Collection Narrative
This collection is an archive of wounds and metamorphoses. It includes pieces that gesture towards the subversive, the defiant, and the fragile. They are neither decorative nor comforting; they instead summon the viewer to stand inside ...

DEUG (Degree in Psychology)
University of Lyon II, France
1978 - 1980
St. Etienne-Lyon
National Diploma of Fine Arts
(Photography Department)
1980 - 1985

Journalism IDA. Henri Coste.
Photography Illustration Diploma.
1991 - 1993
Paris

2022 – Collective Exhibition, “Unverschämte Schönheit,” Sammlung Michael Horbach, Köln, Germany
2021–2022 – Solo Exhibition, “Le Corps du Délit,” Château de Linardié, France
2017 – Collective Exhibition, “Elles Exposent,” Musée d’Art de Toulon, France
2016 – Collective Exhibition, “L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’Être,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2010 – Collective Exhibition, “A Study of Intercultural Dialogue,” Olbia Fine Art Gallery, Antalya, Turkey
2010 – Collective Exhibition, “Surreal/Fantasy Photography,” Bashimi Art House, Salzburg, Austria
2008 – Solo Exhibition, “Body Politic,” Fairfields Art Centre, Basingstoke, UK
2006 – Solo Exhibition, “Inside Out,” Queen Street Gallery, Emsworth, UK
2005 – Solo Exhibition, “For AKS and Anna Levine,” Galerie Le Garage, Toulouse, France
1995 – Solo Exhibition, “At the Deep,” Goro Kuramoshi Editions, Tokyo, Japan
1988–1990s – Exhibitions across Europe: Bonn, Cologne, Rotterdam, Liège, Gaillac, and St Étienne
1984 – Collective Exhibition, “Images Contemporaines,” Centre Beaubourg, Paris, France
1982 – Collective Exhibition, “666 Gallery,” Mois de la Photo, Paris, France