Margot Samel will present a two-person presentation of works by Kris Lemsalu and Sasha Brodsky at the first edition of ENZO in Los Angeles.
Multidisciplinary artist Kris Lemsalu’s practice is a continual evolution of ideas, forms, anecdotes, and personal histories, expressed through sculpture and performance, in which the division between life and art is blurred. She creates complex sculptures, installations, and performances that fuse the animal kingdom with humankind, nature with the artificial, beauty with repulsion, lightness with gravity, and life with death. She revives traditional techniques and methods, combining animal bodies and porcelain objects with found materials such as furs, leather, seashells, wool, or paper in theatrical installations that construct immersive, emotionally charged environments.
Sasha Brodsky’s work maps the emotional and psychological currents that surface in contemporary cities. His scenes are neither strictly observed nor entirely invented; they feel like composite memories shaped by the dense textures of Eastern European visual culture and the restless, improvisational rhythm of New York. Figures appear as if absorbed into their surroundings, their gestures shaped by scaffolding, storefronts, and shifting light, while the environment in turn seems tinged by their mood. Brodsky’s method draws on a printmaker’s sensitivity to line and structure, which he overlays with veils of pastel and pigment that soften edges, blur distances, and allow the image to hover between presence and disappearance.