Artists

LEO ORTA

Press release

For his first solo exhibition at the Christophe Gaillard Gallery in Brussels, Leo Orta (FR, 1993) turns his reflections toward states of being situated at the boundary between the human, the animal, and the landscape.

Within this new body of work, inspired by sensory experiences, Leo Orta brings forth biomorphic forms, ambiguous figures, and silent landscapes. The body becomes a conduit for interspecies emotions, a site of circulation between fear and attraction, vulnerability and resistance. Through these images, the artist explores how one acclimates to what disturbs, eventually transforming it into a possible form of coexistence.

In Être-Anges, the artist depicts figures that evoke contradictory feelings—such as in the works Bat Sculpt or Bewildered Owl—not as symbols, but as familiar presences, sometimes intrusive, that share his everyday life. These beings emerge at a moment of troubled relation to the living world, where the boundaries between nature and culture, refuge and threat, grow unstable, giving way to a space of ambivalence and cohabitation.