- Venue
- Althorpe Studios and Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, November 16, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, November 18, 2012
- Address
- Unit 6b, Althorpe Industrial Estate, Althorpe Street, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV31 2AU
- Location
- West Midlands
A three day show from international interdisciplinary artist Lena Paschen in which she explores the notion of being unpresent through a body of new site-specific works. Lena’s work focuses on the perception of time and place; born in 1985 in Pforzheim Germany and based in Rotterdam after completing a BA in Fine Art at HKU (School of Arts Utrecht) her work finds its inspiration in the everyday environment. Her show at Althorpe Studios and Gallery, which is her first solo show in the UK, is based in an everyday environment she is not use to, does not know intimately and is unpresent in, this has led to her superimposing features from her everyday onto the physical structure of the gallery space.Several of the works are made in common artists’ materials such as print and video but there will also be an ephemeral element which affects these more traditional pieces and the space as a whole.Lena says;My installations consist of found objects, sculpture, photography and video, paint, sound and light. My work is subtle and needs the audience to observe its details. It demands the attention of the visitor and does not immediately present itself. Time and minimal changes are important areas of interest in my method [of making work].
