Bio

Graduate of the Institute of Contemporary Art founded by Joseph Backstein. Resident of Winzavod Open studios 2023/24, ZIL Cultural centre 2023, KOSMOST 2018 and ZIL Cultural Centre 2016. Recipient of the Urban Urge Seed Grant 2014 and winner of Rock your dummy 2013 photobook contest.

Lena is visual artist, choreographer and independent publisher. She works with photography, video, objects, movement and book format. Her topics today are non-existent worlds, reinvention of things, escape from everyday life, dreams.

Lena is interested in a book as a physical object, a way of communication, a future scenario, an opportunity to slow down an a bridge connecting people, allowing them to see something new or see it in a new way; immerse yourself in the reality created by the author through a combination of paper, format, binding, cover, paper, font, text, type of printing, etc.

Project

In their project at Olot Lena will be collaborating with her fellow artist Vlada Krasilnikova and local people. Together they will focus on reinventing details of Olot area and create new imagery working with small local objects available, including forest, stone or water items, as well as personal items of Olot residents, to build temporary sculptures. They will also be gathering stories to intertwine with images, as well as sounds.

Lena and Vlada would like to invite local people to engage in the project, so they will be offering a program of events like artist talks, photoshoots and making a book dummy workshop.