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 mapping sacred symbols, atemporal landscapes, and ornamental traditions, she reimagines these fragments through digital worldbuilding, sculpture, and installation.
Mnemo-history — how the past is constructed through collective memory, — is central to her practice, transforming architectural motifs and decorative forms into sites of hauntological reflection. Her recent work engages traditional formats such as tapestries, wallpapers, gates, and enseignes (signs)—ornamental structures once used to mediate access, announce allegiances, or embellish sacred space. Revisited through digital textures, these forms become fragmented interfaces—mnemonic terrains where fragments of cultural memory dissolve into myth.
Her installations draw together digital and traditional craftsmanship, blurring the boundaries between rendered and built environments. Large-scale wallpapers act as portals to CGI worlds, while sculptural and ornamental elements echo labyrinthine quests and mandala-like formations. These symbolic landscapes invite an explorative déambulation across time and space, where signs, geology, and ornament fold into dreamlike terrains. This is not a return, but an eerie resonance—echoing traces of the wyrd.
She has exhibited her work internationally, most recently at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland, M. Zylinkas Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, Pavillon Southway and MAMO Modulor in Marseille, Centre Pompidou and Brownstone Foundation in Paris, France, Generation & Display, SEAGER, Residence Gallery, COB Gallery, Paradise Row Projects, in London, UK. With a recent solo show at PATARA Gallery in Tbilisi, Georgia.
She took part in Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM Karlsruhe web residency, ‘Ghosted’, shortlisted for the 2020 Hash Award, and undertook residencies at Pavillon Southway in Marseille, in 2022-3.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo:
2024:
— Patara Gallery - Ianitores Terrestres - curated by LAVA Project (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2023:
— Pavillon Southway - Arcana Arcorum (Marseille, France)
2022:
— Virginia Bianchi Gallery - Necro•polis (online)
2021:
— Off Site Project - Versaliae (online)
2020:
— Virginia Bianchi Gallery - Dear One (online)
2019:
— Château de Lantheuil - Historical Amnesia (Lantheuil, France)
Group:
2025:
— Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art - if/then (Warsaw, Poland)
2024:
— Cornerstone Studios (Hypha Studios) - Seven Lamps - curated by Juliet Wilson (London, UK)
— Generation and Display - IceBlink Luck - curated by Kollektiv Collective (London, UK)
— Mykolas Zilinskas Art Museum - Islands and Archipelagos - curated by Tautvydas Urbelis (Kaunas, Lithuania)
— Moosey Gallery - Occult Surge (London, UK)
— Spazio Mensa - PIT STOP #2 (Rome, Italy)
— SEAGER - Respawn - curated by Bob Bickell-Knight (London, UK)
— Gossamer Fog - Gradient Descent (London, UK)
— The Residence Gallery - Ether (London, UK)
2023:
— MASSIMO - It's the tip of the iceberg (Milan, Italy)
— COB Gallery - History of Fantasy Part II - Southway Studio, curated by Emmanuelle Luciani (London, UK)
— Metronom - Rabbit Hole (Modena, Italy)
2022:
— Art Verona Fair - with Virginia Bianchi Gallery (Verona, Italy)
— ART-O-RAMA Fair - with Southway Studio (Marseille, France)
— K41 - Remember When We Met 3 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
— Fondation Brownstone - TELLUS META - 91530 Le Marais (Paris, France)
— MAMO - Centre d'art de la Cité radieuse - Uncanny Depths (Marseille, France)
— Paradise Row Projects - City Entwined (London, UK)
— Mock Jungle - To spawn a door (Bologna, Italy)
— Centre Pompidou - Réseaux-mondes (Paris, France)
2021:
— Mock Jungle - Creeper's Luncheon - curated by De: Formal (Bologna, Italy)
— Cromwell Place - RCA2021 (London, UK)
— Everyday Gallery - History of Fantasy (Antwerp, Belgium)
— Palacio de Aguas Corrientes - Dia Cero (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
— Matt's Gallery - MattFlix: Everything Forever (online)
2020:
— Lux - OUT of TOUCH - curated by Hervisions (online)
— Espacio Odeón - How to inhabit the screen - curated by Juan Covelli (Bogotá, Colombia)
2019:
— Temple Saint-Etienne - PASSANTS (Mulhouse, France)
— Placement Produit - Who Knows What Happened Here? (Aubervilliers, France) [duo]
2018:
— Central Saint Martins - Show ONE (London, UK)
— Center for Art and Media - ZKM - Open Codes (Karlsruhe, Germany)
— Lethaby Gallery - Temporalities (London, UK)
— Tate Modern - Tate Exchange - STUDIO COMPLEX (London, UK)
2017:
— Lethaby Gallery - Annihilation Event (London, UK)
— Tate Modern - Tate Exchange - Sen5.0 (London, UK)
Residencies
— 2022-3 - Pavillon Southway Studio (Marseille, France)
— 2018 - Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany) & Center for Art and Media - ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany)
>>Ghosted 2018<< Web Residency n.4 (online)
Education
— 2018 - 2021 : Royal College of Art, MA CAP Critical Practice (London, UK)
— 2015 - 2018 : Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Arts 4D (London, UK)
Publications
— Kunstlicht Journal - ONLINE CURATING, Vol. 46 1-2
— NONFICTION - Edition 03: STATEMENT
— NONFICTION - Edition 04: THEN THE CHARM IS FIRM AND GOOD
Collections
— UAL (University of Arts London) - 2018 Acquisitions
Awards
— COB Award - Shortlisted (London, UK)
— ZKM Center for Art and Media - Hash Award 2020 - Shortlisted (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Talks
— Galeries Lafayette - 91530 Le Marais at the Wellness Galerie (Paris, France)
— University of Tübingen - Tagung Konstellationen 2021 (online)
— ZKM Center for Art and Media - Hash Award 2020 Ceremony (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Press
— Generazione Critica - Harvest Supper
— Saliva Live - IceBlink Luck
— Echo Gone Wrong - Photo reportage from the exhibition ‘Islands and Archipelagos’ at the M. Žilinskas Art Gallery
— Swarm Magazine - REIMAGINE & REDEFINE
— Ichtus Magazine - Le Centenaire de la Villa Noailles, le parcours marseillais
— FAD Magazine - A HISTORY OF FANTASY: PART II BY MARSEILLE COLLECTIVE, SOUTHWAY STUDIO OPENS IN LONDON
— GOODMOODS - 7 expositions à voir au Printemps
— Generazione Critica - LÉA PORRÉ
— Artforum - TOP TEN Xiaoyu Weng’s highlights of 2022
— Artnet - 2022 artnet innovators list "Which artists are you most excited about right now? — La Turbo Avedon"
— O Fluxo - ARTVERONA 2022 - Léa Porré & Xenoangel presented by Virginia Bianchi
— Artribune - ArtVerona: 10 galleries not to be missed at the fair
— O Fluxo - UNCANNY DEPTHS
— Agora Digital Art - Artists' Profile - Léa Porré
— Stillpoint Magazine - ETHEREAL THRESHOLDS AND SURPLUS AESTHETICS
— Gallery Talk - Kunst in Quarantäne #30 - Vampire und Organe
— L'ADN - Jeu vidéo : les jeunes artistes dans le game
— SWARM Mag - Dear One, Dear Dead
— Electrical Artefacts - A Travel Log of Technoromanticism
— Electrical Artefacts - 15 innovative artists shaking up the digital art world
— ANTIMateria - Semana 252.1 Dear One
— Guest Rooms - VinDizen - isolation issue
— TZVETNIK - 'Passants' by AUBES at Temple Saint Etienne, Mulhouse
— El Pais - Cuatro canales en ‘streaming’ para una selección de lo mejor del arte digital
— Ouest France - Quand l'art contemporain habille la royauté
— Floorr Magazine - Issue 19, Léa Porré
— ANTIMateria - Week 160, Who Knows What Happened Here
— Schloss Post - Law of Ruins (Alexander the Great) by Léa Porré
— ANTIMateria - Week 133, Fake plastic forevers & detournement of digital colonialism
— Schloss Post - Issue 0 - Dream of Hyperreal Oases with Léa Porré
— Artlyst - Central Saint Martins Kicks Off London Degree Show Season 2018
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