Lélia Demoisy presents 'Forest Stories' (Récits de forêts), a solo contemporary art exhibition at the Domaine départemental de Chamarande in Essonne, France, from May 10 to August 30, 2026. The exhibition features sculptures and installations across the orangery, park, and domain spaces, using materials such as wood, fibers, organic fragments, hides, charcoal, and animal tracks to explore the forest as a living network of relations, traces, and transformations. Key works include 'Laissés sur la rive', 'Le Foyer', 'Les chairs froides', 'Cedrus deodara – Forêts futures', and 'Créature'.
The exhibition matters because it reframes the forest not as passive scenery but as an active, composite organism shaped by competition, mutual aid, transmission, and transformation. By integrating contemporary art with heritage landscape, Demoisy invites nuanced ecological reflection without resorting to blunt activism, highlighting how art can deepen public understanding of ecosystems, memory, and the fragile boundary between life and endurance.