Residency at LALA

Athens, Greece – February 2025

In February 2025, Hadrien Daigneault-Roy was the invited artist at the interdisciplinary gallery LALA in Athens. There, he developed a new branch of his creative research around performative funerary spaces and rituals of mourning.

Between aseptic funeral homes and dusty churches, he envisioned a performative third space to give form to a protean funeral ritual titled Illustrated Atlas of Crying. The Atlas attempts to tame death through the figure of the professional mourner and its specter-drag embodiment.

Emerging from her grave, the prostitute of tears leads a ceremony that summons Madame Death, who feasts on bodily fluids, filth and reminiscences.