artist/ Rivera Hadjes
France
Léa, born in 1990 lives in l’Haÿ les Roses and works at La Dalle in Montreuil, Diamètre 15 (Ø15) collective.
Born into a family that immigrated to France from two different continents (Jewish from Egypt and Guatemalan), her inspirations are multicultural.
Léa is interested in questions of movement and the sense of belonging to a space.
She captures photographs during her daily commute, transforms them and then prints them on different materials.
She captures photographs and videos during her daily commute, transforms them and then prints them on different materials.
Since 2019, she has been working in metal, creating steel structures to house her images.
She joined the Atelier des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris center Glacière in 2010.
In 2011, she was accepted at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris (ENSBA) and graduated (DNSAP) in June 2016.
That same year, she took part in the first exhibition of young artists invited to the Musée d’Orsay, “Kitch ou pas Kitch”.
Subsequently, her experimental documentary film, graduation thesis (ENSBA’s first filmic thesis),” Les Métalepses de Tex Avery”, an ode to the cartoonist’s genius, was presented to the public in 2016 and again in 2017 at the ENSBA documentary festival.
Since then, Léa Rivera Hadjes has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including: DIPLÖRAMA at ECAM center culturel (Kremlin Bicêtre) in 2018 a duo show with Laure Tiberghien.
In 2019, she is invited to the artistic residence Résidence Bouchor in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. In – 2020, she is selected for a summer residency at OPENBACH Galerie and exhibits there in September.
In 2021 she takes part in the group show FRONTIÈRES, organized by Les Nouveaux Collectionneurs at Espace Voltaire, and in Expo 4- Urban Diving, at Galerie du Montparnasse. In spring 2022, supported by the Ø15 association and the City of Pantin, she curated an exhibition of 10 artists at the Grandes Serres de Pantin, presenting LE DRIVE.
Her second solo show “META MAMBO” took place in November 2023 at Espace Bouchor, Paris I4. Also in 2023, she took part in the Festival Planète Périphérique in the exhibition Nuit Tranquille curated by Grégoire Prangé, Clément Mancini and Jonathan Bréchignac, and presented an installation in an apartment ready for demolition in the Cité Python Duvernois in Paris’s 20th arrondissement.
In April 2024 she takes part in the group show Soli Loci curated by Mathilde Badie and Gabrielle Balagayrie at La Tour Orion, Montreuil, and in May she is invited to take part in the exhibition All In organized by ATFU at La Galerie Au Roi, Paris 11.
