Lester Korzilius is an artist and architect with a concurrent arts and architecture practice based in London. He holds an MFA from the University of Sussex / West Dean College and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Fine Art at the University of Leeds.

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Korzilius' work investigates the unpresentable as it emerges through sculptural experience. Rather than treating the unpresentable as an intrinsic property of the artwork, his practice understands it as an event produced in the encounter between work and viewer. This encounter operates at the level of sensation, affect, and intensity, prior to linguistic articulation or conceptual recognition. Drawing on phenomenological and affect theory, the work engages states commonly associated with the sublime, the liminal, and the figural, where perception exceeds stable form or meaning.

 

His sculptures employ both socially mediated structures—such as architectural ordering, repetition, and memorial conventions—and pre-objective bodily perception. These strategies are used to generate conditions in which form is apprehended as a precognitive synthesis: felt rather than read, encountered rather than interpreted. Through this tension between structure and excess, Korzilius’ work seeks to open a space in which meaning is suspended and experience remains unresolved, provisional, and affectively charged.