"A piece of your dream has stuck to the window." Adolpho Arrietta, Flammes

Where is the border between the real and the imaginary? Perhaps it can be found by touching the surface of a painting, a photograph, or a movie screen. A surface with no depth. With me looking at it on one side, and, on the other, the memory of something that has happened: a landscape, an idea, the shooting of a film, a story, a film set, a gesture, a piece of fruit, a dream, a childhood…

Now I ask myself: how to get from one side to the other?

So I started to scratch the scabs of my dream and they slowly began to bleed…and out of them came flowers.

The universe of Marguerite Lantz is a playful variation around images, objects, and familiar landscapes, a discovery of their potential to reveal themselves as extraordinary and enchanted. Her works, which question the borders between reality and fiction, the natural and the artificial, take the form of miniature films, performances and installations as well as film and theater sets and props. Her work as been shown in galleries and museums around the world (the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kobe Modern Art Museum, the Doha Art Museum) and her videos in international festivals.

Saturday 27 July at 7 pm:

Flower crowns for dead bees

(miniature ceremony for 12 bees)

As a child, I waited for bees to die in order to pursue one of my favorite games: bee funerals. I built them lovely little coffins out of matchboxes lined with grass and feathers, then conducted a short ceremony in the middle of our garden. A small cemetery arose between the rose bushes and hyacinths. Each little grave had a straw cross and was covered by daisies and buttercups, sometimes a rose if Simone gave us permission to pick one or if one could be found that had prematurely dropped from its bush.