Léa Porré
Léa Porré is a French-Belgian artist, born in 1996 and based in London. A graduate of the Royal College of Art (2021) and Central Saint Martins (2018), she explores cyclical time through the interweaving of memory, history, and myth. By deeply mapping historical and sacred sites and symbols, she reimagines these landscapes through 3D world-building, creating videos, installations, sculptures, and framed paintings.
Her work envisions impossible encounters that resist the constraints of linear temporality, constructing transhistorical narratives where reality blends with dreams and folktales to channel healing into our complex heritage.
Fiction as method is key in Porré’s practice, transforming landscapes and motifs into sites of eerie resonance and hauntological reflection. Examining fragments of cultural memory, her work reveals the edges where history and geology dissolve into myth. These imagined terrains evoke the spectral presence of the past, assembling traces into narratives that unsettle yet enchant.
Porré’s immersive installations blend digital and traditional craftsmanship, forming mnemonic environments that recall labyrinthine video game quests. Large-scale wallpapers act as portals to CGI-crafted worlds, while intricate sculptural details and ornamental elements are arranged in mandala-like formations. These symbolic landscapes invite viewers into an explorative déambulation across time and space, where the interplay of traces, fragments, and the «wyrd» opens pathways for reflecting on the cyclical nature of time and reimagining cultural memory.
Below there are some featured projects in which Lava has closely collaborated with Léa, providing curatorial, research and production support depending on the specific case. At the end, you can find her whole exhibition list up to this date.
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Exhibition detail ‘Ianitores terrestres’, 2024. Patara Gallery, Tbilisi. Curated by Lava Art Project.
Installation view ‘Ianitores terrestres’, 2024. Patara Gallery, Tbilisi. Curated by Lava Art Project.
Solo exhibitions
2024
· Ianitores Terrestres, Patara Gallery. Curated by LAVA Project, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2023:
· Arcana Arcorum, Pavillon Southway, Marseille, France.
2022:
· Necro•polis, Virginia Bianchi Gallery (online).
2021:
· Versaliae, Off Site Project (online).
2020:
· Dear One, Virginia Bianchi Gallery (online).
Group exhibitions
2024
· Seven Lamps, Cornerstone Studios (Hypha Studios), curated by Juliet Wilson, London, UK.
· IceBlink Luck, Generation and Display, curated by Kollektiv Collective, London, UK.
· Islands and Archipelagos, Mykolas Zilinskas Art Museum, curated by Tautvydas Urbelis, Kaunas, Lithuania.· Occult Surge, Moosey Gallery, London, UK.
· PIT STOP #2, Spazio Mensa, Rome, Italy.
· Respawn, SEAGER, curated by Bob Bickell-Knight, London, UK.
· Gradient Descent, Gossamer Fog, London, UK.
· Ether, The Residence Gallery, London, UK.
2023
· It’s the Tip of the Iceberg, MASSIMO, Milan, Italy.
· History of Fantasy Part II, COB Gallery – Southway Studio, curated by Emmanuelle Luciani, London, UK.
· Rabbit Hole, Metronom, Modena, Italy.
2022
· Art Verona Fair, with Virginia Bianchi Gallery, Verona, Italy.
· ART-O-RAMA Fair, with Southway Studio, Marseille, France.
· Remember When We Met 3, K41, Copenhagen, Denmark.
· TELLUS META – 91530 Le Marais, Fondation Brownstone, Paris, France.
· Uncanny Depths, MAMO – Centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France.
· City Entwined, Paradise Row Projects, London, UK.
· To Spawn a Door, Mock Jungle, Bologna, Italy.
· Réseaux-mondes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2021
· Creeper’s Luncheon, Mock Jungle, curated by De:Formal, Bologna, Italy.
· RCA2021, Cromwell Place, London, UK.
· History of Fantasy, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
· Dia Cero, Palacio de Aguas Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
· MattFlix: Everything Forever, Matt’s Gallery, online.
2020
· OUT of TOUCH, Lux, curated by Hervisions, online.
· How to Inhabit the Screen, Espacio Odeón, curated by Juan Covelli, Bogotá, Colombia.