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moviemaking, Lester’s practice has come to embrace and utilize all imaginable media and talent. With emphasis on human existence and experience, his projects aim to sharpen and flex the mind. Open ended, sustaining mystery and without obvious dogma or singular ideas, Lester proposes ways to relate to the world, how it is represented and what mechanisms and components constitute our perception and understanding of it. Lester currently resides in
Amsterdam and is represented by the
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practise has always been international, with many art residencies, group and solo exhibitions, gallery representations in Europe, North
America, and Asia. Lester has participated in over twenty large scale international art exhibitions, such as the Documenta in Kassel and the biennale of Venice, Sao Paulo, Istanbul and Sydney.
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Visual artist, electronic musician, poet, and experiential filmmaker, Lester’s works consist of spatial installations, video installations, sculptures, performances, and short films. Other activities include commissioned art in public space, small scale architecture, mentoring and teaching. Lester’s
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PolyLester - established by
Gabriel Lester and Martine Vledder in 2013 - is a multidisciplinary design studio focusing on artworks, public sculptures, architectural interventions, landscapes, and interior design. PolyLester works together with an array of architects, designers, including such
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Lester’s creations originate from a desire to tell stories and establish contexts and settings that support these stories or propose their own narrative interpretation. His vocabulary is characterized as cinematographic, without necessarily employing film or video as a medium. However, like
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Publications on the work of
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Lester frequently collaborates with
Raimundas Malašauskas, Aaron Schuster, Onco Tattje, Carlos Amorales, Job Chajes and Arnaud Hendrickx. Other collaborators include: Jennifer Tee, Freek Wambacq, Thomas Bakker, Herwig Weiser.
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culture. He began graffiti writing under the ‘tag name’ Catch. Lester later produced and published rap and electronic music as Utile
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