lea van hall

✩ multimedia artist based in paris and vienna ✩

2024 – 2026

die Angewandte Vienna

2023 – 2024

Beaux-Arts de Paris

2019 – 2024

HFBK Hamburg

꩜ email: mail@leavanhall.com
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and my mind is like a hand, it touches rather than thinks, 2026.

photo © Marlene Mautner
interactive installation
sound by Éléa Brando

It’s just you and your imagination and your heart is beating fast as you allow the story to take over. There’s a darkness to it, something forbidden but exciting. It’s soft and warm, yet hard and cold; it feels right but wrong at the same time.

The installation captures the tension around staging violent scenarios with toys and games that don’t suggest violence themselves, and read aesthetically as rather cute. Through interaction and embodiment, the viewer explores play anecdotes from other people's childhoods and experiences the friction that comes with testing boundaries. Where does the desire to be cruel to toys come from and what is being negotiated through this type of play?

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