Ready to go marks French-born artist Alice Raymond’s first solo show in California. The exhibition addresses questions about migration, displacement and changes. Raymond’s work focuses on the instability of the notion of territory, maps, and landscape

She produces works related to a wide range of topics expressing change of location: nomadism as a lifestyle, migration due to climate change, precarious situations due to economic changes, continent shifts. The floating aspect of the work recalls tapestries, and confirms the artist’s desire for freedom and the will to break the common use of orthogonality in painting. Some pieces included in the show express the notion of imperfection as a kind of artistic manifesto. A painting-installation also occupies the gallery space, bent on the wall as an abandoned demonstration banner claiming for discussion and concerns about space, with the idea of a decent space for everybody. All paintings are based on a codified word, a shape that builds up the composition and give title to the piece.

Raymond embraces the housing concerns and natural aspects of instability of San Francisco and integrates them in her layers of concerns, giving birth to a peaceful body of works calling for contemplation and thoughtful decisions.