Lera Kelemen
Projects-
dept. of sweet libations
- corporeus thirsty
Backslit
Deadlift
Vessel
Neverknee
Small Worksdrawings & boxes
Closure
2025
receipts / chewing gum / louvre panel from the artist’s studio in the City of London / galvanised steel
Dimensions 58 × 58 cm
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I lie to you, yet I remain truthful.
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This a chronological accounting – through receipts – of the dissolution of a relationship and its subsequent encounters. They include dinners, coffee meetups, hotel stays. Pieced together with cherry-pink chewing gum and saliva (containing DNA), this abstracted streams of seemingly useless paper-tags contain a hidden code, perhaps one that reveals the secret ontology of life itself.
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