Roaming in the Paracosm · 2024–25
The show, room by room.
Fifteen paintings and a handful of cat sculptures, hung across three loose bodies of work — Wildmen, Film and Animals. Highly saturated colour raises the tension; thinner dilutes it until the edges of things come loose. Tap any work to look closer.
On letting paint lead
Lena hands half of each picture’s authorship to the painting itself — letting thinned pigment run and pool of its own accord, as if the paint were a collaborator with intentions of its own.
It is the logic Harold Rosenberg named action painting in 1952: the canvas not as a surface to fill but as an arena to act in. What gravity, the room, and a stray fleck of dust decide becomes part of the work — conflict and calm, the literal and the metaphor, held in the same restless frame.
About the artist