Dell’historia Naturale (of natural history)

4-26 january 2023

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𝙸𝙽𝙰𝚄𝙶𝚄𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 4 jan || wed | 18h
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𝙳𝙰𝙸𝙻𝚈 𝙾𝙿𝙴𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙷𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂: tue-sat | 15h-19h
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𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙵𝙻𝚄𝙴̂𝙽𝙲𝙸𝙰𝚂: 26 jan || thu | 16h
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𝙵𝙸𝙽𝙸𝚂𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙴: 26 jan || thu | 17h

Booking: Free entrance

‘Dell’historia Naturale’ (da história natural) is Léna Lewis-King’s first solo exhibition in Lisbon. The exhibition will also be accompanied by live musical performances and other events. The show is composed of two projects: ‘Figure 1’ and ‘White Ink’. Inspired by Ferrante Imperato’s 1599 woodcut of ‘Dell’Historia Naturale’, the exhibition represents the culmination of Lewis-King’s research from her residency at CASTRO Projects in Rome, where she began to investigate the proto-scientific spirit behind the development of ‘Curiosity Cabinet’ (personal collections that combined colonial, extractive, scientific, curatorial and educational practices). Lewis-King’s work revisits and deconstructs historical material from a feminist perspective, and by further considering the presentation of her research within the exhibition space, her work forms (audio-visual) layers of critical reflection on our cultural relationships to science, medicine, labor, production, aesthetics, ontology, and the sensorial body.

LÉNA LEWIS-KING

Léna Lewis-King is a multimedia artist based between Lisbon and Rome. Framing her perspective from a feminist viewpoint, she explores filmmaking as an expanded medium that witnesses both the everyday magical transformations emerging between nature, technology, psychic and spiritual spaces – as well as the impact techno-capitalist acceleration has upon lived experiences. Léna’s work has been exhibited at Lisbon Art Weekend, Lisbon, La Galleria Nazionale, Roma, Journeys Festival International, Leicester, The Wrong Biennale, The Armoury Show, New York, Playback Tour (Across UK Venues), The ICA, London, SPACE Studios, London, Fitzrovia Gallery, London. She has shown in London Short Film Festival, FUSO Video Art at MAAT Museu, Lumiar Cité, The Roundhouse, BFI, Chisenhale Gallery, and Google Arts and Culture. She has been awarded the CASTRO Emergent fellowship, Roundhouse film fund, Random Acts film fund.