About

Lera Kelemen (b. 1994) is an artist living and working in London. Her practice revolves around soft systems of support, containment & the preservation of fragility. Through sculpting and assembling in a sort of mal d’archive, her process is driven by a compulsion to freeze movement, to collect & seal the origin of a moment.

Her works operate through restraint, often calibrating how much is seen & what is withheld. In works like Backslit or Deadlift (2024), corsets and splices become placeholders for supports that evade functionality. Playing with the tension of offering while resisting control, her installations retrieve a body caught mise-en-scène.

More recent pieces lean towards timekeeping, mapping pressure points - seams, joints, masking tape & hinges. Collected items & fittings are recast as precious objects that record the mundane with a sense of understated ceremony.

Lera Kelemen graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2022. To date, she’s worked on four solo exhibitions & was featured in several shows across institutions.