Léa Marais is a London-based visual artist working across photography and printmaking. Her practice explores states of transition, focusing on moments where perception shifts and meaning remains open. Through repetition and subtle variation, her images move between abstraction and figuration, inviting a slower way of looking.

With a background in artificial intelligence, computer vision and psychology, Marais previously worked with images as tools for scientific enquiry, producing visual data to answer precise questions. Her artistic practice marks a shift away from certainty, towards using images to ask open-ended questions and hold ambiguity.

Moving between analogue and digital processes, she approaches image-making as a form of thinking. Working with slow, resistant techniques, she is attentive to how time, repetition, and chance shape an image’s presence. Through translation and reworking, images lose their fixed authority and retain a fragile sense of aura, familiar yet altered.

Her work explores the relationship between inner and outer landscapes, thresholds between psychological and physical space, and the emotional traces held by places and forms. Rather than offering fixed narratives, Marais’ images create space for reflection and connection, between people, places, inner experience and different moments in time.