Straight Stories is an ongoing work about wanderings in ambiguous frontier zones where physical geography and the geography of the imagination become indistinguishable.

The title of this work is Sakura (Cherry Blossom), which is an important symbol in Japan.


Meessen’s work is set in Chandigarh, the paragon of the modernist city planned by Le Corbusier in the 1950's as a symbol of the new, progressive nation of India that had just emerged from its colonial past.

What once made mankind hold its breath is the object of bored museum tours today: Laika, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova.