The graphite drawings for the series From The Archives, 2025 draw on a wide range of imagery sourced from the artist’s archive of documentations, found photographs, international magazines, and illustrated books that they have compiled over many years. From the Archives not only references the visual artifacts that underpin their artistic process, but also poses a fundamental question: What finds its way into a society’s archive – and what is forgotten? Through the combination and reinterpretation of their source material, Leonid Keller create a space in which the interplay between image perception and cultural identity becomes perceptible and open to critical reflection.
From The Archive I, 2025
graphite and masking fluid on paper
110 x 80 cm, framed
Frome The Archives II, 2025
graphite and masking fluid on paper
165 x 125 cm, framed
Frome The Archives III, 2025
graphite and masking fluid on paper
165 x 125 cm, framed
From The Archives IV, 2025
graphite on paper
165 x 125 cm, framed
graphite on paper
165 x 125 cm, framed