Léa Marais is a London-based visual artist working across photography and printmaking. Her practice explores how images carry meaning through repetition, translation, and experience, and how perception shifts as images are reproduced and re-encountered. Drawing on analogue and digital processes, her work moves between abstraction and figuration, inviting a slower way of looking.

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

She is interested in how images invite projection and how meaning is shaped by perception, memory, and association. As images are reproduced and reworked, their sense of presence subtly shifts, familiar, yet altered. She also reflects on how technologies of vision shape how images are seen, circulated, and understood, influencing our experience of the visual world. Rather than offering fixed narratives, her work creates space for reflection and connection between people, places, personal histories, and different moments in time.

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