Artist Letizia Le Fur's Mythologies takes root in two of her childhood passions: Classical mythology and the search for beauty.

Mentored by Classical poets, Hesiod and Ovid in particular, Letizia revisits mythology with her own sensitivity and aesthetic approach, to freely interpret them in this work. She transforms and transcends what surrounds her, embellishing reality, colouring what is grey, in order to invent a world of her own, where she can settle, hide away, atone and find harmony in the midst of harshness. Her search for an aesthetic refuge and for plenitude grazes obsession, and conveys what Stendhal wrote in his essay De l'amour: "Beauty is the promise of happiness." Her quasi-religious quest for harmony and beauty, in opposition with everything ugly and inappropriate, is unexpected, absolute, even secretive at times, and definitely freed from codes and standards.

The present work uncovers the first and second chapters of Mythologies. Origin firstly broaches the World's creation, whilst Golden Age addresses the harmony between the gods, nature and men. Still in preparation and inspired by Ovid, the third chapter will be dedicated to Metamorphoses. Throughout her life, Classical texts have become a solid ground for Letizia's narrative intents, as well as a way for her to deal with themes related to modern society, using metaphors, whilst staying away from autofictional tales which she fears and would rather avoid.