Playing with the attraction of techniques associated with the decorative arts, Laurie Karp sketches disconcerting scenes where men and beasts maintain ambiguous relationships. Her vision of nature is not that of an immobile and serene Eden. She rather envisages it as a kind of tragicomic theater whose actors would be animated by the desire and the hunger. Their deadly embraces, their tooth and nail struggles, she veils them under the charming appearance of ceramics or embroidery. It is in this spirit that she conceived most of the pieces created for the exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature.

From a residency at the Museum of Ceramics in Desvres, a set of works in glazed earthenware declines the theme of the forest. But the theme of water is never far from his work and the organic forms covered with scales are next to condensed landscapes within installations where the artist leaves it to the observer to elucidate the plot. The liquid element is still present, but channeled this time, in a proliferating piping system from which wisteria flowers spring up. At the Manufacture de Sèvres - Cité de la céramique, Laurie Karp has also designed a set of porcelain sculptures for the painting salons of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature. Using forms, decorations and techniques from the repertoire of the factory created at the initiative of the Marquise de Pompadour, she has created a falsely reassuring ensemble. She perpetuates small crimes with humor and ferocity, under the cover of a decor with rococo accents.