Alice Kemp - 9 Dreams In Erotic Mourning (2026)

alice kemp is a british artist working with noise, performance, fetish objects, installation and many other forms of media. throughout her work, she articulates a broken and illogical syntax of the subconscious through trance states, dreams, and disturbances. she has performed extensively, occasionally as an associate to the schimpfluch-gruppe of swiss extreme aktionists.

it is a rarified violence that alice kemp invokes on her 9 dreams in erotic mourning. something disfigured. something fucked. something left behind. the subject matter of her investigations are deliberately inscrutable as she grotesquely amplifies a moment of terror, or fear, of sadness through pockets of piano melodies broken by psychoacoustic noise, razor-cut silence, ghastly vocalizations, crushed acts of physical aggression, and buckets of high-pressure suspense. cryptic and oblique by design kemp's work reads perhaps as a seance gone awry, certainly as private ritual made public, and as a transfiguration of literary body horror turned into a sonic nightmare that runs parallel to the works of rudolf eb.er, puce mary, sewer election, and luc ferrari.