Léa Namer is a French architect born in 1989 and graduated in 2012 from the National School of Architecture in Paris-La Villette. After several years working in Parisian architecture and landscape architecture studios, she began developing independent research projects focused on architecture and land.
In 2011, as part of a university exchange program, she spent a year at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism in Buenos Aires and presented a thesis on the relationship between the city of Buenos Aires and the Río de la Plata.
In 2016, she joined the curatorial team for the "Îles de la Seine" exhibition for the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, and in 2021, she transformed the research conducted for the exhibition into a children's book, Iris au fil de la Seine (Magellan Publishing House).
Originally initiated with Elsa Dupont in January 2019, "Chacarita Moderna" is a project centered around the Sixth Pantheon of the Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The study of this unique necropolis is the beginning of a multidisciplinary artistic practice (video, sculpture, installations) and a broader reflection on the relationship of our contemporary societies with death and cemeteries.
