About

Lera Kelemen’s installation practice reflects on notions of femininity, confinement, body structure, vulnerability & equilibrium. Analysing the limitations of bodies in space, she uses her own body to model and enliven matter. Her works result in conceptually immersive settings where shapes, surfaces and armatures blend together to define new entities.

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2024
Corporeus, Thirsty

Underlining an inherent feeling of losing balance, the installation borders uncertainty and paralysis hinting at a broken morphological sequence - organic or otherwise.

2024
Backslit

The backbones attach to each other, like two halves of a prosthetic corset curving against the spine. The claws clench as tension circulates through the lumps. Will it ever let go?

2024
Deadlift

A futile device, a series of impaired limbs reaching up for connection. The hair growing from the cracks turns it into a comforting apparatus.

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News

Corporeus, Thirsty
Solo show
Feelium Gallery, London
20 — 30 September 2024

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Hollow Hour
Art O’tel Hoxton, London
October 31 — 11 November 2024

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One Artist, One Artwork

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Gertrude Studio
https://gertrude.com/artists/lera-kelemen

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Interview
PAI_32 Artist of the Month
https://pai32.com/2024/07/19/lera-kelemen/

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Publications
Selected Works, 2022

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Projects Archive
2019-2023

2021
Affective Interstice

An installation where textures become areas of mediation. Anthropocene and greenery mapped as microscopic landscapes

2021
Crevice

A compendium of surfaces and architectural details mapped onto the gallery floor, tracing a network of pathways

2023
Absent

Tactility as a sense that tends to disappear at first, shifting between natural and technological

2021
Sensible Realms

Surface hosts intimacy, it mediates relationships, it bridges interior and exterior like a form of public intimacy expressed through the skin

2021
Uncanny Reading Station

An interactive interstice, a waiting space for contemplating the area that mediates two destinations, on what is gathered and collected in the space between two stops

2022
Mark the Ground with Thin Soft Thread

A piece of fabric is extracted from a room, taken out into the woods, and stained, soaked and dragged through the mud. Then taken back in and integrated into a domestic object

2020
Experimenting Margins

This installation invites the audience to reflect on the personal and collective processes that define the private and public spheres

2019
Kinaesthetic Cabin

Inside a closed shape, the body stumbles upon its limitations, movement is progressively inhibited as the space becomes smaller

2020
Memonnade

A theatre of memory,
a sketch through which the philosopher attempts to visualise and materialise human memory

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