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léa belooussovitch
Léa Belooussovitch is a French visual artist, born in Paris and based in Brussels. Trained in drawing at La Cambre, her practice engages with the circulation and perception of images in a contemporary context.
Working from photographic sources, often drawn from press and current events, she translates images into coloured pencil drawings on wool felt.Through the softening and partial erasure of forms, her images appear blurred, suspended, and deliberately distanced from their original context.This approach shifts representations of trauma towards a more uncertain and abstract form, inviting a more attentive and interpretative gaze.
Drawing directly onto the textile, she alters the surface itself: fibres absorb pigment and react, giving the image a tactile, almost vibrating quality.The felt, both protective and insulating, becomes a surface that holds the residual trace of the original image.
Her work engages with a moment in Scabal’s history: the severe flooding that affected its Huddersfield mill around twenty years ago. Archival images of the damage became the starting point for a series developed across different fabrics and formats.
Through blur and the loss of visual markers, the image shifts, allowing the eye to move beyond its original subject: to imagine, to reinterpret, or to lose it entirely.
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