On the first episode of Alcôve, we enter into Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature | Museum of Hunting and Nature, one of the most transportive spaces in Paris. Dedicated, uniquely, both to art and conservation, it is an aesthetic exploration of our relationship to nature and the wild. The episode features an immersive interview with the visionary at the center of the museum, Claude d’Anthenaise. As director and curator from 1998 to 2019, he shaped a space where ancient and modern breathe the same air, and and where artists and musicians, ecologists and witches gather to explore ideas inspired by the natural world. thealcoveproject.com | @thealcoveproject
"We are trying to réenchantée le monde." Claude d'Anthenaise
In his words, Claude d'Anthenaise's vision for Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature was to make “a museum of emotion,” with “a free and poetic spirit,” and “a climate of strangeness.” Within its 18th-century walls, he installed natural specimens alongside medieval artwork and pieces by contemporary artists, creating an uncanny and otherworldly atmosphere.
In conversation with writer and host Alisa Carroll, d'Anthenaise guides us through the mythical, spiritual, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of the museum, and shares how, in the midst of the crisis of the Anthropocene, it has become a vehicle for cultivating new images of the wild, for galvanizing movements like ecofeminism, and for reintegrating the human and natural realms. Join us for a deep journey into the enchanted landscape d'Anthenaise has created.
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