INTERVIEW - Florentine & Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize

"It was a first for us to work from a fragrance and words, and recreate the intoxicating, structured, strong and warm sensation they gave us. Usually we start from a real, visual medium, and we loved this new experience with Cappadocia." Florentine and Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize (1978 and 1980) have been working together since 2006. They live and work in Bobigny. Their practice combines drawing and ceramics, engaging with different styles and modes of representation inherited from the history of art and craft. A visual language sustained by drawing, for drawing. Their work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions: Museum of Fine Arts in Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland, Frac Normandie Caen, 2020, drawinglab, Paris 2019, Galerie Lefebvre&fils, Paris, 2019, galerie G-N Vallois, Paris 2017, Galerie Luis Adelantado, Valencia 2017, the Parc Saint Léger Art Center, 2017, the grand café Saint Nazaire, 2017,... They have also participated in residencies at the Darawing Center in New York (2016-2017), at José Noé Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico (2015). Their works are present in CNAP’s collections, Frac Pays de la loire and Midi Pyrénées, Cité de la céramique in Sèvres, among others.