Léa Katharina Meier – The Great Story of Cleanliness
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Performative reading Text, costume design and performance by Léa Katharina Meier Sounds composition by Serge Teuscher Italian translation by Veronica Pecile
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Léa Katharina Meier (1989, Switzerland) is a performance and visual artist. By employing clowning as performative practice, her research focuses on the notions of ridiculousness, abjection, and jubilation in order to create a visual and sensory universe that embraces the audience. Out of her intimate failures, she wishes to develop a filthy, dyke sense of humour. On stage, she strives to embody negative emotions and feelings as a source of pleasure. Storytelling, the body as archive, grotesque femininity, shame, and a childlike universe are recurrent motifs in her practice.
Léa Katharina Meier has shown her work in numerous art spaces and theatres in Switzerland, Italy and Brazil (Arsenic, Tunnel Tunnel, MCBA, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine, Lateral Roma, Istituto Svizzero, Pivô arte e pesquisa). In 2021, she received the audience and jury prizes at the Swiss Performance Art Awards for "Tous les sexes tombent du ciel". In 2023, she took part in the Swiss Art Awards exhibition in Basel. In 23-24, she was a resident of the Swiss Institute in Rome and received and award of the Irène Reymond Fondation in Lausanne.
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Photo: Léa Katharina Meier Tous les sexes tombent du ciel, 2021 Performance view at TU-Théâtre de l'Usine Genève Photo by Lula Althaus
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