Lera Kelemen | Backslit

£14,000.00

Backslit

Unfired porcelain clay, Aluminium, Reworked belts & buckles, Dried grass & hair

50 x 60 x 300 cm

2024

£14,000

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The second structure of the series Corporeus, Thirsty, Backslit shows two backbones attached to each other like two halves of a prosthetic corset curving against the spine. Underlining an inherent feeling of losing balance, the installation borders uncertainty and paralysis. A lack of life hints at a broken morphological sequence. Delicately bound by straps and buckles from used cricket, the bodies hang in a suspended, vulnerable state.

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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).