Léna Lewis-King’s work engages with everyday magical transformations emerging within the intersections between nature and technology.
Léna Lewis-King (b.1999) is an artist-filmmaker based in Portugal. Léna Lewis-King’s work engages with everyday magical transformations emerging within the intersections between nature and technology. Framing her perspective from a feminist viewpoint, she often features psychic and spiritual aspects of lived experience, as her films meditate on the impact techno-capitalist acceleration exerts upon ephemeral life and living in the world. Léna’s curatorial experiences include co-founding Apertura Institute (2022), founding the online publication ‘open2’ (2020-21), and curating the group show ‘Point and Shoot’ at Platform Gallery, Kingston School of Art, London (2020).
Léna’s most recent commission was with the Roundhouse in London, and she has previously exhibited works at Lumiar Cité (2022), London Short Film Festival (2022), The Roundhouse (2021), Genesis Cinema (2021), The Bomb Factory Foundation (2021), La Galleria Nazionale (2021), Google Arts and Culture (2021), Art Connect (2021), BFI London (2019), The Armory Show (2018), Aesthetica Film Festival (2017), Chisenhale Gallery (2017), ICA London (2017), SPACE Studios (2017), De La Warr Pavilion (2017), Arnolfini Bristol (2017), Fitzrovia Gallery (2016), and across Latin America as a part of FEM Tour Truck festival (2017-2018).
Refigure 1
HD Video / 03:03 min / 2020
‘Refigure’ is a series of short films that explore aesthetics of artificiality, abject performances of seduction, the re-appropriation of sound, and the augmentation of women’s bodies within virtual environments.
Refigure 2
HD Video / 03:15 min / 2020
Refigure 3
HD Video / 03:31 min / 2020
L’autoritratto
HD Video / 01:32 min / 2020
The film explores questions of what the ‘self’ can be in a virtual age, and through the use of self-reflection and voice over, tries to access the more vulnerable perspectives of being human in contrast with our increasingly augmented and technological world.
The Storm is What We Call Progress
HD Video / 05:32 min / 2019
‘The Storm is What We Call Progress’ is a short experimental essay film reflecting on histories of moving image media, spiritual reflections on analogue photography, the nature of the archive and the acceleration of photographic and virtual technologies.