Léa Dumayet, born in 1990, graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2014, lives and works in Paris and has exhibited her work in France and abroad, notably in Aegina (Greece), New York, London, Milan, Como and Lisbon.
Léa Dumayet's work is essentially sculptural, based on instinctive and empirical research into the characteristics of materials, particularly metal and elements of nature, whose potential and breaking points she explores.
Her sculptures and installations are often fragile, in balance, and she invites the viewer to experience their tensions.
Léa Dumayet's work constantly oscillates between contradictory notions: fragility and strength, lightness and heaviness, balance and vertigo, reality and dreams, attraction and risk... It's up to the viewer - actor - to discover the hidden meaning.
She has exhibited in Galerie du CROUS (solo show 2015, group show 2019), Galerie Virginie Louvet (2015), Galerie Mercier et associés (2016), Galerie Perrotin for the association Aides (2016), Galerie Bertrand Grimont (2017), Galerie La Forest Divonne (2018), Galerie Un-spaced (2018), Espace Arondit (2018), Galerie Chloé Salgado (2019), Galerie Laure Roynette (2019), Villa Belleville (2019), Galerie Valentin (2021), Galerie Sono (2021), Galerie l'Ahah (2022), Galerie Chapelle XIV (2023), Barnes Paris (2024), Galerie S. (2024).
In France, her work is presented as part of group exhibitions in various venues such as Centre d'Art Contemporain de Saint-Restitut (2016), Propriété Caillebotte à Yerres (2016), Musée d'Issy-les-Moulineaux (2017, 2021 and 2023), CRAC Champigny (2018), Maison des Arts de Bages (2019), Centre d'Art Contemporain Tignous à Montreuil (2021), Le Grand Café de Saint-Nazaire Centre d'Art d'Intérêt National (2022), Château d'Esquelbecq (2023), DOC! (2024).
Léa Dumayet often takes up residencies: Pollen Residency in Monflanquin, France (2016), Land-Art Residency in Obonjan, Croatia (2017), Guest Project Space Residency in London (2018), Via Farini Residency in Milan (2019), Fonderia Battaglia Residency in Milan (2020), VERAO Residency in Lisbon (2024).
Her work has also been shown in Greece at the Aegina Museum (2015), in London for the Ghost exhibition at Guest Project Space (2018), in New York at the Jefferson Market Library (2018), in Milan at The Open Box (2021) and Galeria Ipercubo (2022, 2023), in Como at Galeria Ramo (2022) and in Lisbon at Galerie Carlos Carvalho and Galerie VERAO (2022, 2024).
In 2021, Léa Dumayet was a finalist in the tenth "Contemporary Talent" competition organised by the François Schneider Foundation. In 2024, Léa Dumayet received the Culture Moves Europe grant from the Goethe Institute for her residency and exhibition at Galerie Verao during Off de ARCO in Lisbon (solo show).