LENA

CONTACT

http://lenanowhere.com
lena.k.leigh@gmail.com
esirizar@gmail.com
https://medium.com/@aspacia
Instagram @lena_nowhere
https://blog.naver.com/aspacia

BIOGRAPHY

LENA is a visual artist who conducts photography, video art, and installation, based in Seoul, South Korea.

She philosophically focuses on themes such as her identity, social minorities, private emotions, and social issues.
LENA defines herself as a person who stands on the border. The border is the spot not outside nor inside. She considers the border constructs wider and flexible insights, and it devises awareness in a complicated society without bias. She keeps her eyes on unjust ones and diversity and aims to exhibit her thoughts through her works.

Her initial works display aesthetical images, loneliness, and unnameable moments in photography. She was influenced by Henri Bergson, Fujiwara Shinya, and Sophie Calle, thus, she attempted to capture the time-space as an observer in her early works. She mainly uses film cameras due to her belief that film photography is more closed to capturing instant moments in photography progress.
Recently, LENA concentrates to convey her identity as a female artist and an Asian onto her works. Nah Hye-Seok, Agnès Varda, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich affect her, along with these ideas, she broadens her fields whilst grafting her insights onto social issues. She has begun to produce uncanny video works and objects with photography since 2017. Her works are deeply rooted in literature, philosophy, and old and European movies, together, she combines her thoughts, adopting various methods.

She studied BA philosophy at HUFS in South Korea, and MA in photography: Images and Electronic Arts at Goldsmiths College in the UK, also she has a short-term course diploma from NYFA.

CURRICULUM VITÆ

Solo Exhibition

2023 May THE FOREST OF TYTIRUS, Space Route, Seoul, South Korea
2021 June ADZIISGAI, Photography Space Um, Suwon, South Korea
2021 May DESIDERO, LUCEO CLARE; I am shining by myself, BGN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 August LET YOU INTO MY VIBIN, Baekdugangsan, Seoul, South Korea
2019 June BEYOND HEARING. Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2019 June PHAINESTAI, JackeunchangKeunpoonggyoung Gallery, Daejeon, South Kore
2018 July MELTS IN THE WALL, AND I, AM THE ARROW, Space55, Seoul, South Korea
2018 March YEOJA A, The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC, Canada
2017 November BEYOND HEARING, Anise Gallery, London, UK
2015 May-June PHAINESTAI, Seojin Art Space, Seoul, South Korea

Double Exhibition

2023 June THE TRANSLUCID MOMENT, Yeonwoo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2021 Feb-Mar CAN WE COEXIST? KP Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2020 May IS THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG? Space55, Seoul, South Korea
2017 October I AM THE ARROW, Project Space Wapping, London, UK

Group Exhibition

2024 May UNDRESSED ME: My Little Buddha, Tell Me What You See,
Schloss Mitsuko, Thürkow, Germany
2024 April CASS, Eastartelier, Seoul, South Korea
2024 February UNDRESSED ME: My Little Buddha, Tell Me What You See,
Sphere Salon, Hashi Gallery, Mexico Art Week, Mexico city, Mexico
2023 December METAMORPHOSIS, Alternative Space IPO, Seoul, South Korea
2023 October UNDRESSED ME: My Little Buddha, Tell Me What You See,
Alternative Space IPO, Seoul, South Korea
2023 September FLASHBACK, Should Work Anyway, Bincan Apgujeong, Seoul
2023 June METAMORPHOSIS, 60ADADA, Saint-Denis, France
2023 February No Man’s Land, Sphere Salon, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 August TANGLED COSMOS, Metal House Gallery, Yang-pyeong, South Korea
2022 June SO, WHATEVER CONTEXT, Seven days Studio, Seoul, South Korea
2022 May Ways of Saying: SIPHONOPHORA, KP Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Nov-Dec THE ORIGIN OF THE BIRTH, Peugeot Citroen VIP centre, Pyeongtaek, Korea
2019 April WHO I AM_NA: C’EST MOI, Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2014 December BIRTH, Canson Gallery, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2014 May MY FAVOURITE THING, Arton Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Curate

2024 April FROM THE LIQUID ENNORATH, Juyeso Project, Seoul, South Korea
2023 January PENTAPRISM, Posposki, Seoul, South Korea
2023 January Caroline Culcasi, MAYBE THIS IS A FOREST, Posposki, South Korea
2022 August TANGLED COSMOS, Metal house Gallery, Yang-pyeong, South Korea
2022 July PARALLEL PARADISE, Metal House Gallery, Yang-pyeong, South Korea
2022 October Through the River 3x3, Korea cultural centre in India, Delhi, India
2021 May Ways of Saying: SIPHONOPHORA, KP Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Fair

2021 June The Preview Seongsoo, Seoul, South Korea
2021 June The Preview Hannam, Seoul, South Korea
2017 October Farallax Art Fair, London, UK

Experience

2021 Curator, India-Korea Culture Exchange Exhibition, Delhi-Seoul, India-South Korea
2016 Researcher, Historic Archive, History Museum Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2015 Curator, Jeonju International Photography Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
2014-2015 Photographer&Researcher, Seoul Old Lane Project, Seoul City Municipal Council, Seoul, South Korea

Artist Residency

2023 June-July 60 ADADA, Saint-Denis, France
2021 November ROOT, Brabant, Netherlnd
2018 March-April The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC, Canada

Publication

2022 Writer, Here, without noticing, Little Mountain, South Korea
2020 Writer, Can We Talk Coexistence? Seoul, South Korea
2015 Writer&Photographer, Phainestai, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Illustratior&Writer, Little Kitten Momo, Picture Book, Dubai, UAE
2014 Editor&Photographer, tranquilizer, photography magazine, Seoul, South Korea

Education

1999-2005, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies - BA Philosophy, South Korea
2013 New York Film Academy - Photography(120hours diploma), USA
2016-2017, Goldsmiths College, University of London - MA Photography: Images and Electronic Art, UK

Workshop

2017 Magnum & The British Photography Journal workshop, London, UK

Language

Korean(native), English(upper advanced), French(B1) and Japanese(N3)

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