Lera Kelemen | Vessel

£2,500.00

Vessel

Video, iPad, Aluminium (iPad not included in sale)

5m 7s, Variable materials
Edition of 5, 4 available

2024

£2,500

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Vessel is a processual video piece adjacent to the installation Corporeus, Thirsty. The video shows the genesis of the installation’s sculptural works as they emerge out of movement and wetness. The body is used as a blank space where forms grow organically resembling mutations, growths or prosthetics which weigh down the performers’ limbs. As a zoomed-in perspective on this process, where body parts are reduced to abstract bulges and crevices, the video echoes the idea of matter being entrapped within its own shape, an idea also present in the larger pieces, Backslit & Deadlift.

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Lera Kelemen (b.1994) is a multimedia artist working in London, UK. Her installation practice reflects on notions of femininity, confinement, body structure, vulnerability and equilibrium. Analysing the limitations of bodies in space, she uses her own corporeality to model and enliven matter. Her works result in conceptually immersive settings where shapes, surfaces and armatures blend together to define new entities. In the past two years, she developed a new body of work inspired by anatomy, encasings and their extension into physical space.
Studied at the Royal College of Art and was shortlisted for the Lumen Prize in 2022.
Selected residencies and exhibitions include Corporeus, Thirsty solo show at Feelium Gallery (UK, 2024); Green Skin / Crevice solo show at Borderline Art Space (RO, 2021); I feel something, don’t know what group show at Zacheta National Gallery (PL, 2021); Green Skin / Affective Interstice at Art Encounters (RO, 2021); Niki Artist-Run Residency (DE, 2020); Staycation group show at Catinca Tăbăcaru Gallery (RO, 2022); If Anything Else Survives at Potential Project (GR, 2021); Royal College of Art shows (UK, 2020-2022).