Ryan Hughes Projects Presents ... Lena Paschen´s "The Unpresent"

check out the video for a live-impression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pIkWfCS8EZo

A three day show from international interdisciplinary artist Lena Paschen in which she explores the notion of the unpresent through a body of new site-specific works. 

Lena’s work focuses on the perception of time and place; born in 1985 in Pforzheim Germany and based in Rotterdam after completing a BA in Fine Art at HKU (School of Arts Utrecht) her work finds its inspiration in the everyday environment. Her show at Althorpe Studios and Gallery, which is her first solo show in the UK, is based in an ever

yday environment she is not use to, does not know intimately and is unpresent in, this has led to her superimposing features from her everyday onto the physical structure of the gallery space.

Several of the works are made in common artists’ materials such as print and video but there will also be an ephemeral element which affects these more traditional pieces and the space as a whole.

Lena says;
My installations consist of found objects, sculpture, photography and video, paint, sound and light. My work is subtle and needs the audience to observe its details. It demands the attention of the visitor and does not immediately present itself. Time and minimal changes are important areas of interest in my method [of making work].

curated by Ryan Hughes 

16-18th nov 2012 
Unit 6b, Althorpe Industrial Estate, Althorpe Street, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV31 2AU

http://ryanhughesprojects.net/
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Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam

Forgotten Places 2 / Hidden Nuggets 

groupsexhibition "Promise Promise", Galerie FrankTaal Rotterdam  8.sept - 6.okt 2012

Graduationshow HKU 2012

Graduationshow

Te ervaren waren 5 werken in een op het eerste gezicht leeg ogende ruimte waarvan één werk hoorbaar was. Subtiele aanpassingen van de ruimte die met de kwaliteiten en mogelijkheden van deze ruimte spelen. De werken tonen zich niet in één oogopslag maar vragen meer tijd en aandacht van de kijker. Een lijst met de titels van de enkele werken was voor de entrée van de ruimte op de muur geschreven.

Down Below 2012 
Een minimale aanpassing aan de ruimte in de vorm van een sierplint. Gelijkgetrokken met de kleur van de vloer en de gewone plinten gaat deze bijna op in de ruimte. 

Forgotten Places 2012 
Een glazen plaat in de vorm van een driehoek hoog geplaatst in de hoek van de ruimte waarop een aantal zorgvuldig gearrangeerde gevonden objecten liggen. Aan de muur geschilderd is de schaduw van een trap die de suggestie wekt omhoog naar de plaat met de objecten te leiden.

Hidden Nuggets 2012 
Een vergulde spijker, geslagen in de muur met twee schaduwen eronder, waarvan er één pas bij nader bekijken onecht en geschilderd blijkt.

niet als afb beschikbaar maar wel onderdeel van mijn examenwerk waren: 
Triangles of Sunnlight 2012         (link vimeo: https://vimeo.com/47082361) 
Op één muur bevindt zich een abstracte lichtvorm die van tijd tot tijd in beweging komt, ronddraait en hierdoor ook verandert. De herkomst is een op het dak geïnstalleerde lichtbron die door een ventilatie-propeller schijnt. 

Rainy Days 2012 
Een soundtrack van regenwaterloop in de pijpen van het gebouw, die opzwelt en afneemt, soort van readymade-in-sound-remake. De geluidsbron is onzichtbaar in de hoek van de originele waterpijp geplaatst.

you pass me from time to time - Kunstpodium T Tilburg

I presented you pass me from time to time during the group-exhibition "Looking Up" feat. Suzanne van Rest, Maria Gondek, Timo van Grinsven and Sil de Reuver in KunstpodiumT in Tilburg.

You pass me from time to time is an installation consisting of a light-projection, triangle-shaped mirrors, clay and a light source which was flexible at its joint so that it could move and change the reflection. At one point all the reflected triangles would find together and be united in one reflection.

I will add later on more info and pictures/gifs.

http://www.kunstpodium-t.com/agenda/2302---0403--suzanne-van-rest/

`slideshow 54” no. 2011-04-29 ́ . exhibition view at Konstfack 2011 

a slideshow of collected/found objects that are recorded in sound and text
54 min loop, 40 objects, always in progress

The sound-slideshow-installation plays with the curiosity of the spectator and demands/asks a lot of patience.
The taken photograph of the collected object has the duration of the underlaying soundtrack which is only hearable with the headphones. So it becomes a choice to participate or not and triggers also the curiousity of the spectator who sometimes has to wait in order to hear the sound. There is no narration in the slideshow itself, so the spectator is free to stay and listen as long as he wants to.
Referring to the attention that I payed to the objects and the value I award them, I would like to activate a recognition of these interests in the common object and give the spectator the chance to rethink his observation and perception of his surrounding.

text example 

`tok tok tok tok tok tok toktoktok tok tok klak klak klak
heel ... made out of wood and ... rubber its black from the outside and the part which was adapted to the shoe is just normal wood like ... no color on it. you can see the ... ... ... I think its like .. were the nails were ... could be ... and ehm where the rubber is there is a structure to get more grip on the street and there ́s also a name on it like Indiana Top Men. I think it was from a man ́s shoe. Someone lost it, like I lost my own heel and ... when I was searching for my own heel for my shoes I found that one. I found also my own heel but now I have another one aswell. ...I can ́t tell the size ... ... but someone is missing a heel from his shoe.

KF expo

exhibition or presentation? I´m still doubting if this is chance or meant to be. (I ate some of the cookies ...)

Ljudvärldar-Sonic World!

"Soundquest"

An interactive sound-game made for the Swedish Museum of Architecture by Pavel Fiorentino (http://www.pavelfiorentino.com), Isabelle Gressel and Lena Paschen (me).

see more about our project here:

http://www.arkitekturmuseet.se/improviserastaden/soundquest/index.html

one moment show

“one moment show” (2010) exhibition view
mixed media (installation, film, photography, sculpture, readymade objects)

My starting point was to create a space which gives the impression of someone living and working in there. But at a closer look nothing really belongs in that living/working space.
I presented abstract objects while it was part of my concept that it shouldn´t look like a presentation but coincidental and I adjusted what it needed to be coincidentally perfect (the missing links).
There were objects which were associated with something which could fit in the personal living space but still were too abstract to have any use in there (like the shelf with the folded paperbacks).
And there were traces of the presence of a person who just have been there recently and worked/used the space (like the plastic bottle with milk which is left open).
The whole space becomes important when perceiving the moment.
The actions I did while organinizing the space would have been also of interest to be seen as a performance in order to not only present an endwork but leading the spectator to the moment of that and adding other levels like direct time experience. Time is another important factor. The time that already has passed is shown again by photographs in the same space. Also there is a certain temporarity in the objects because of their breakable materials.