What if your living room were transformed into a living forest? With La Licorne, l'Étoile et la Lune, duo Florentine & Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize take over the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris from October 14, 2025 to March 8, 2026. Beneath the museum's ceilings, a graphic and poetic forest comes to life, combining drawing, ceramics and theatrical décor, in an immersive installation that goes beyond the simple exhibition.
These immersive installations invite visitors to explore a transformed space, where animal forms, everyday objects and sensitive materials mingle. The rooms of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature become the extension of an imaginary home conceived by Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize, in a dialogue between contemporary art, nature and intimacy.
Conceived as a "pencilled twilight" deployed on a panoramic fabric, the installation transforms the temporary exhibition hall into an open-air interior landscape. Through a dense and abundant scenography, the duo propose a sensitive wandering punctuated by drawings, ceramics, prints, lights and animations, where the spectator is invited to meet a domesticated bestiary: peacock, deer, owl, cat or frog come to life in this inhabited setting, like a visual tale to be explored. The relationship with animals is gently rethought, between affection, cohabitation and attention to otherness.
This artistic gesture extends beyond the main hall: theexhibition extends to the museum floors, slipping into the tapestries, taking over the furniture and turning the walls upside down, echoing the atypical museography of the site. The museum thus becomes a showcase to be reinterpreted, a strange house where each room dialogues with the themes of the living, the wild and memory. Lamarche-Ovize 's work here takes the form of a moving tribute, made up of medieval rereadings, borrowings from their own careers and original creations, created especially for this singular site.
The exhibition is based on a strong literary reference: the Bestiaire d'amour, a medieval prose work by Richard de Fournival. This ancient text, combining amorous reflections and animal figures, serves as the common thread for an exhibition that questions the way we relate to other species. The artists ask: what if we rethought our relationship with living things in terms of respect, complicity and exchange? Their artistic proposal, at the crossroads of aesthetics and ethics, is rooted in this fertile tension.
The power of this approach lies in the duo's hybrid visual language, which combines freehand drawings, handmade ceramics and the interplay of materials. Working with the codes of art history and popular crafts, Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize develop a plastic style nourished by references, ornaments and fragments. Their installation at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature thus plays on several levels of reading, oscillating between contemporary art, curiosity cabinet and domestic décor.
Whether you're a lover of contemporary art, curious about new museum forms, or simply a stroller in search of poetic tales, this exhibition is for everyone. The intimate setting of the museum, in the heart of the Marais district, lends itself particularly well to a family outing, a cultural rendezvous for two, or an afternoon of solo contemplation.
It's an exhibition that should also appeal to families, as the uncluttered scenography is particularly appealing to younger visitors: didactic and accessible... Something for everyone! The exhibition is fairly short, with only a few rooms featuring the duo's work - the main one on the first floor - but it's also and above all an opportunity to discover the museum's permanent collections, with the duo's works in dialogue with the museum's own. A rather intimate exhibition, too, given the cramped nature of the exhibition rooms, located in a real house.
Let yourself be carried away by this living installation, and you'll enter a parallel world, where walls breathe, objects tell stories, and every turn holds an encounter between form, matter and memory. An invitation to slow down, to observe, and to rediscover the museum as a space to be experienced, not just visited.
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Dates and Opening Time
From October 14, 2025 to March 8, 2026
Location
Hunting and Nature Museum
60, rue des Archives
75003 Paris 3
Access
M°Arts et Métiers
Prices
Tarif réduit: €11.5
Plein tarif: €13.5
Official website
www.chassenature.org
More information
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm.
