Tote bag Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize
Florentine & Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize

Since its opening, the Foundation has commissioned several works that integrate the house. After Lionel Estève, Valérie Mannaerts, Alex Cecchetti, the foundation invites the artists duo Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize to create a mural in the kitchen-dining room of the Foundation.

As an extension of this order, Florentine and Alexandre created a tote bag in the spirit of their mural work.

Frida, Mary and Élisabeth is a dialogue between the figures of Mary Blair, Frida Kahlo and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Mary Blair and Frida Kahlo were often considered modest in their time and thus devalued: the former as an executor, the latter for her “intimist” formats and subjects, and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Marie-Antoinette’s official painter, often overshadowed in favour of Chardin and whose work has often been considered naïve.
Florentine and Alexandre propose, by taking up the motifs and themes of these three figures, to shed light on a sort of heritage, focusing as much on their painting practices as on the militant feminist positions that inhabited them, as on the incarnation of a discreet and effective seduction.