RESIDENCIES
2021    Residency at Art au centre, with Gaetane Lorenzi, Jacques Di Piazza & Alexane Sanchez, Liège, Belgium
 

STATEMENT

Léa Quindot, originally from Belgian Luxembourg, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work revolves around a central concern: the notion of space. She graduated from the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Liège in 2022 with a degree in scenography, a discipline she does not consider as an
end in itself, but rather as a tool for research and experimentation. While drawing is her primary medium, her practice is fed by a variety of skills, ranging from textile crafts to fly-fishing, as well as engraving and printmaking. After a first exhibition in Brussels in 2020, she completed a residency of several months in Liège. This period allowed her to conduct various experiments and produce a series of large-scale works. In 2023, she was invited to present her work at the Prague Quadrennial. Her works have since been featured in several group exhibitions across Belgium.

« Through a multidisciplinary approach, my works focus on familiar objects, simple gestures, natural elements and domestic practices stretched out from their original context. It aims to explore what these can become when they’re not meant to be used in the way they’re expected to be, when they turn into archetypes, tools, languages or metaphors. By presuming connections between things, then between things and space, I deploy a set of works into playful, delicate and expansive installations. The use of simple tools reveals a desire to poeticize material constraints as much as a form of fragility. It can break, it can hold, it requires precaution. »