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What happens behind the scenes of a burlesque stage? What stories unfold in hidden spaces, far from the audience’s gaze?
The series Fantasies by Lisa Kereszi offers a compelling response. Developed between 1999 and 2005, the project explores, through photography, the world of American nightclubs. The protagonists are burlesque dancers captured in the moments before or after their performances: shimmering bodies wrapped in lavish and revealing costumes, carefully constructed poses, theatrical gestures, fragments of sensuality set against interiors that are often modest, at times even dilapidated. It is precisely within this tension—between the seductive artifice of the stage and the raw reality of the surrounding spaces—that the narrative strength of the work emerges. Kereszi does more than document; she constructs suspended, deliberately enigmatic images that invite viewers to broaden their visual horizons and to reflect on what remains outside the frame. Details and fragments become central elements in a visual narrative that transforms places commonly regarded as marginal or seedy into unexpectedly familiar settings.
Born in 1973 in Pennsylvania and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Lisa Kereszi earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 1995. After initially focusing on Literature and Creative Writing, she chose to specialize in Photography, developing a practice attentive to marginal spaces and the unseen narratives of contemporary American culture.
NostanteMarras presents the exhibition on the occasion of the Photo Vogue Festival 2026.
Press Kit here
Fantasies
Lisa Kereszi
From March 2 to April 11, 2026
NonostanteMarras, via Cola di Rienzo 8, 20144, Milano
