Paris-born, Lisbon-based artist Joana Vasconcelos had the opportunity to display her work in the Palace of Versailles as part of the French property’s annual contemporary art exhibition.

Vasconcelos work is developed around the idea that the world is an opera — grandiose and, at times, strange.

Continue on to view a selection of Vasconcelos’s impressive artwork and visit her website below for more.

These giant stilettos are constructed from stainless steel pans and lids and are a reference to the kind of armor that warriors wore in the Dutch War.

Made from ostrich feathers and Swarovski crystals, this work of art is meant to resemble a helicopter.

Two lobsters climbing a table have never looked so lavish.

This tower of light is made with hundreds of champagne bottles lit from the inside.