About LENA
서울을 기반으로 활동하는 사진가이자 시각예술가.
‘경계’의 감수성과 철학적 시선을 바탕으로,
과장되지 않은 자연스러움 속에서 각자의 정체성과 존재감을 포착합니다.
가장 빛나는 표정과 빛으로, 인상과 분위기는 섬세하게,
시간이 지나도 단정하게 남는 사진을 촬영합니다.

뉴욕필름아카데미 수료
골드스미스 컬리지 사진 전공
매그넘 & 더 브리티시 포토그라피 저널 워크숍 수료
http://lenanowhere.com

LENA (b. 1980) is a visual artist based in Seoul, South Korea, specializing in photography, video art, and installation. She philosophically focuses on themes such as identity, social minorities, private emotions, and social issues.

LENA defines herself as a person who stands on the border. The border is a spot that is neither outside nor inside. She believes the border provides wider and more flexible insights, fostering awareness in a complicated society without bias. She focuses on unjust issues and diversity and aims to exhibit her thoughts through her works.

Her initial works display aesthetic images, loneliness, and unnameable moments in photography. Influenced by Henri Bergson, Fujiwara Shinya, and Sophie Calle, she attempted to capture time and space as an observer in her early works. She mainly uses film cameras, believing that film photography is closer to capturing instant moments in the photographic process.

Recently, LENA has concentrated on conveying her identity as a female artist and an Asian in her works. Influenced by Nah Hye-Seok, Agnès Varda, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich, Hélène Cixous, she broadens her fields while incorporating her insights into social issues. Since 2017, she has begun producing uncanny video works and objects with photography. Her works are deeply rooted in literature, philosophy, and old European movies, and she combines her thoughts using various methods.

She studied for a BA in Philosophy at HUFS in South Korea and an MA in Photography: Images and Electronic Arts at Goldsmiths College in the UK. She also has a short-term course diploma from NYFA.