“What I try to do in my work is say something about my past. To do that, I construct narratives based on memories and objects that awaken certain feelings in me, sentiments that are often violent. The imaginary dimension of the folktale lends itself particularly well to this reinterpretation of the past.

The concept of fairy is interesting because it is link to the idea of woman speech. The world fairy comes from fata, which means fate the goddess of Destiny and also the world Fari, to speak. Fairytales are women speaking. But my work has nothing common with the “girly” aspect of fairies. My tales are like those of Angela Carter and Marina Warner with no moral, no princess and no prince charming. My heroines are strong and never passive. The opposite of Walt Disney woman characters. In that type of tale, woman are projections of masculine desire. In mine, men are the projection of feminine desire..(Laughs)”

Alice Anderson, from Womanly Speech / extract of ART PRESS 344 / interview by Jason Farago