Léa Belooussovitch's drawings follow a well-established process. The artist begins by selecting press or internet images related to dramatic events such as terrorist attacks or war scenes. She primarily focuses on the representation of anonymous victims—wounded or vulnerable individuals. Léa Belooussovitch manipulates these source images in various ways (cropping, enlarging) before reproducing them with colored pencil on felt. This process is slow and repetitive. The layering of colors gives the final work a soft, velvety volume. The emerging forms appear as colorful halos with blurred shapes that prevent viewers from recognizing the scene before them. However, the title of each piece anchors the drawing in reality by specifying the city, country, and date of the tragic event.
Through this blurring of context and distancing from violence, Léa Belooussovitch invites us to reflect on our relationship with information and voyeurism, the saturation of news, and the endless cycle of catastrophes. This approach seeks to demonstrate, in the artist's words, how the violence of information has eclipsed the humanity contained in the event.