To mark the 75th anniversary of the Maison de France, artist Julie Stephen Chheng will be taking the public on a graphic and playful adventure around nature and its imaginary worlds from April to June 2025 - a large-scale project that will occupy almost all the rooms of the Maison de France. Opening on April 9, 2025 at 7 pm at the Alice Guy Gallery.
With the projects Uramado, Fortune Teller and Paysages en construction, visitors can rediscover the spaces of the Maison de France through the lens of contemporary art and the artist's dreamlike universes, which include illustration, paper, augmented reality and interactive projections. This immersive experience brings together recent projects and research on paper and digital media. The viewer is invited to discover the spirits of nature through dialogues that highlight parallels between humans and the environment and question the juxtaposition of man and nature. Julie Stephen Chheng plays with words and images and explores different forms of storytelling - from augmented reality and projections to paper design and book art. Her works blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy, developing narrative structures that incorporate body movement, audience choices and everyday spaces.