Marcelle Alix

Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Ana Mendoza Aldana lives and works in Paris. She is a curator, art critic and poet.

Member of AICA-France and C-E-A / Association française des commissaires d’exposition.

She has been conceiving, organizing and producing intellectual and eminently sensitive exhibitions for over twelve years.

The projects she has organized (at the Palais de Tokyo, the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch, the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, the Bains douches in Alençon, the Air de Paris and Marcelle Alix galleries in Paris…), since 2013, often take literature as their starting point, and seek to shed a different light on the most diverse contemporary artistic practices and the urgencies of the present.

She places particular emphasis on feminist and queer issues and practices, as well as on painting.

Since 2024, she has been developing a new form of art criticism, borrowing its typographic games, as well as its musical and narrative forms, from poetry. This experimental form allows for a free association of images, rhythms, sounds and personal experiences shared in connection with the works presented.

In 2024, she was selected to take part in the Visitor Programme of Phileas – the Austrian Office for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Trampoline in Vienna and Salzburg.

She is regularly invited to present or publish her work as a curator, art critic and researcher, notably at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, the Bibliothèque Kandinsky – Centre de recherche du Musée national d’art moderne, the École du Louvre, the M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, and the Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, among others.

You, I drink you in one gulp.

I lick you, I eat you. I devour you. My belly is stretched tight

like a drum,

my eyes struggle to hold back the tears

of my pleasure. You penetrate me

to the core. I possess you, I cover you. I preserve you. Under a bell glass, I hold you, I

digest you. I assimilate you, you become me.

“El fantasma de Tennessee” is a collective exhibition on melancholy, based on three works by Tennessee Williams and their film adaptations.