Sans titre, Natacha Lesueur – Festival OVNI

The faces and bodies she represents are almost always those of female models. Through various processes, she subverts her characters and portraits by introducing chimeras. Their plastic force places them at the confluence of painting, sculpture and performance.

Since 2009, Natacha Lesueur has been creating photographic stagings using a model to replay the character of Carmen Miranda. This Portuguese-Brazilian actress and dancer was particularly famous in the United States in the 1940s, during which she starred in about fifteen successful films. Carmen Miranda embodies a certain exoticism, wearing hats decorated with fruit, dressed in extravagant samba costumes, displaying an exuberant sensuality. Her character mixes South American cultures without distinction, a media construction of which Hollywood was the first promoter. Natacha Lesueur captures this icon through meticulous work on costumes, accessories, poses, framing and lighting. It is therefore a question of reconstruction and reincarnation.