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By merging together text, drawing and textiles, Léa Katharina Meier creates atmospheres that are both scary and reassuring, tender and monstrous, in which shame and pleasure occupy an empowering place. Through a performative installation reminiscent of some of the artist’s scenographies, the exhibition Nuit nommée Fantôme transforms the spaces of Tunnel Tunnel into a room, a body or a city, serenaded by the light of street lamps and fabulous stories.

The book Jour de Fête – first monograph of the artist – constructed from a tale and drawings by Léa Katharina Meier, made in collaboration with the graphic designer Gaëlle Renaudin and edited by Tunnel Tunnel, will be published in 2023.

Léa Katharina Meier (1989, CH) is a visual and performance artist who develops an artistic approach of self-demolition, with the desire to expose her disgrace and find grace in her own ridicule. She has shown her work in several theaters and art spaces in Switzerland and benefited from the Faap and Pivô arte e pesquisa residencies in São Paulo (BR) in 2018 and 2019. In 2021, she won the Jury Prize and the Audience Prize at the Swiss Performance Award for her play Tous les sexes tombent du ciel (Coproduction TU – Théâtre de l’Usine and Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain). She is a member of the translation collective from Brazilian Portuguese to French BRASA – La traduction comme geste politique.

Artistic and technical collaboration: Guits, Vicky Althaus
Writing advisor: Nayansaku Mufwankolo
Music and sound atmosphere: Serge Teuscher
Text on Léa Katharina Meier’s practice: Valentina D’AveniaWith the support of: Pro Helvetia, Fondation Leenaards, Service des affaires culturelles du Canton de Vaud, La Ville de Lausanne, Fonds RespectThanks to: Adina Secretan, Cecilia Mathys, Constance Brosse, Evo Jovičić, Juliana Stadelmann, Margaux Lang, Max Léo Hauri, Sibo, Tatiana Baumgartner