About

Referencing marks as small as an embroidery stitch and as large as the flight of a missile, Donnan constructs sites of exchange that blur sanctity and survival. Working with reclaimed textiles and domestic patterning, she builds temporary structures that expand from stitch to stratosphere. Through moveable appliqué, her work engages personal and systemic logics of exchange, mapping a shared cultural psyche and its resulting territories through site specific form. The viewer is positioned as witness to what has been lost in our archives of touch.

Rooted in the conceptual schema of two dimensional mark making, Donnan extends theselanguages into spatial, material, and time based registers, using gesture, line, and pattern to investigate systems of exchange across vernacular and domestic visual culture, sculpture, installation, and time based work.

Léa Donnan is an artist, curator, and educator specializing in interdisciplinary and hybridpractices. Her work catalogs and remixes communal histories of materials as part of a broader cultural narrative, examining data, memory, and meaning and the systems that embody them.

Donnan has a sustained practice of developing bespoke pedagogical and site specific forms across galleries, museums, and socially engaged educational and cultural contexts.