Léna Meszaros

“Fantastic stories” reflects the particular vision of Léna Meszaros, oscillating between reality and fantasy. With a literary background, she worked in the theater as a playwright in her youth. From there, she has retained an attraction for “staging”. Above all, she loves telling and sharing human stories, putting images to emotions. Her works are about suspended time, a moment when everything stops, but where we can always imagine movement, the before and the after. There’s this intensity of the present moment, very delicate, very ephemeral, sometimes dramatic. There’s also a kind of exuberance, an almost baroque profusion, a visual charged with color and emotion. The original installation immediately transports you into an imaginary world. Everything seems almost normal, based on a banal, everyday situation, and yet … In “La vengeance de la Machine à Coudre”, a frustrated machine transforms itself into a dragon and takes control of creation, starting to embroider its owner; in “Héritage”, the central character is a large headless coat, carrying the suitcases of past generations; “Danse Macabre” describes a chance encounter with Death on a street corner, “Surviland” transforms surgical masks into the bricks of a multi-storey building where the inhabitants try to survive during Covid; in “Antique #Metoo”, Daphne transforms herself into a tree to escape rape; “La boîte à vacances” describes a disturbing vision of our future, where we’ll spend our vacations in special boxes of rehydrated seawater… Each creation allows visitors to position themselves, to interpret the message according to their own life experience, and sometimes even… Laugh.