"Under the water": mind-expanding, 100 % natural!
Existence without sound and verbal communication can turn out into an advantage – at least in the short term. This is what the participants in the photo sessions for the "Under the water / Above the water" project easily find out. Cold water may limit the fun.
Hot and cold all over. Both under the water and above the water, life can be pretty harsh. Even on tropical islands – if you aren't a tourist. "Sich über Wasser halten", a German metaphor, is not about fun at all, but about the basis of one's livelihood.
Lena Lapshina
Born 1965 Kurgan, Western Siberia.
State Stroganow University of Fine and Applied Arts, Moscow 1991; Ph.D 1996.
Lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria.
Artist, co-founder of State of the Art magazine, curator for M21.
LENA LAPSCHINA
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curriculum vitae
Born in 1965 in Kurgan, Western Siberia.
Graduated from the State Stroganow University of Fine and Applied Arts, Moscow, in 1991 and made her Ph. D. in 1996.
Lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria.
Artist, co-founder of State of the Art magazine, curator for M21.
Selected exhibitions:
2011:
Space, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (AT)
2010:
Biennial of Young Artists, Bukarest (RO)
OSTRALE '010 Internationale Ausstellung für zeitgenössische Künste, Dresden (DE)
Festival de l'Image Environnementale, Paris (FR)
Resistance, Museumszentrum Krasnojarsk, Krasnojarsk (RU)
Princely Halali, Esterhazy Privatstiftung, Forchtenstein (AT)
Idyll, Bukarest (RO)
2009:
Performance III – Gender, Politik, soziale Fragen und Intercultural Studies, Fotogalerie Wien, Wien (AT)
My favorite late-night television watching pencil's diary, Kunstencentrum Signe, Heerlen (NL)
Exposition Fleuves, CNEAI, Paris (FR)
Weite, VIII. Biennale Krasnojarsk (RU)
Risk, Kunstbiennale Luleå, Luleå (SE)
unfiction, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Chicago (U.S.A.)
Videoreflex, Synagoge Trnava, Trnava (SK)
