Synopsis
Commissioned by the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Marie Losier (remember The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye and the delightful Cassandro the Exotico) spoils us with a playful, dreamlike jewel, a concentration of her poetic universe. Armed with her 16mm camera like a magic wand, she breathes new life into animals frozen in eternity. Taxidermisez-moi once again honors her art of fabrication and collage. Bodies gilded, camouflaged, furnished with hair, feathers, beaks, nails… The result: an explosion of colors, sounds and textures in the heart of this sleeping museum, discovered as if through a keyhole. Celebrating the companionship of beast and man, Taxidermisez-moi plays with the boundaries between the animal and human worlds. In the eyes of the strange creatures on the prowl alongside bears, deer and birds of all kinds, we see the same innocence, the same astonishment. When the sound of the rifle is heard, the strange creatures, his friends, collapse, transformed into foxes. Beneath the initial playfulness and gentleness of a re-enchanted world, while celebrating the extraordinary variety of living things, Marie Losier delves into the “animal question” with melancholy and concern. The tale turns into a manifesto, albeit a modest one, which surprisingly borrows its voice from André Malraux, as a call to resist. Packed with references, Taxidermisez-moi is a filigree of the idea that artists and animals share the same condition, threatened by the same gun. Producing beauty as the ultimate act of resistance in the face of “the totally well-founded hypothesis of a planet without monkeys and wild animals”, going “to the places of art where we remember this loss” (Jean-Christophe Bailly), forces us, the spectators, to think of a future world where the beauty of the living can only be found in the heart of a museum. (Claire Lasolle)
