Contact
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Lina A. (2000) is a multidisciplinary artist working with moving image, experimental analog photography, AI, and archival footage. Her work is being displayed internationally in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. Her most notable exhibitions include the Art Graduate Prize Exhibition in London, the summer group exhibition Patterns and Structures in Cambridge and the group show off-RCA during Les Rencontres D’Arles opening week. Lina also received Metro Imaging Mentorship Award for her conceptual installation piece Unrequited Land. Her work was published in the anthology With No Orbit. Lina has graduated from University College London in 2021 with a Bachelor`s degree in Art History and obtained a Master`s degree in Photography at Royal College of Art in 2023. She is also head of a curatorial collective and publication Fetchish that explores post-internet art.
Artist Statement.
Lina`s research-based practice focuses specifically on the deceptive aspect of personal and collective memory. Her work balances mistrust and sincerity in a fictional twist. The narrative constructed by the artist for each immersive piece explores the notion of cultural politics of emotions through fragmentation of identities and interchanging points of view. The artificial multiplication of voices asserts the authority of an ultimately unreliable narrator. The irony of “working on the side of misinformation” gives a humorous flair to the artist`s position of mass media critique.
The artist`s approach to working with the archive is the reoccurring revelation of its incompleteness. The goal is, therefore, to explore the emotional attachment around it rather than provide historical context which, as shown by the artist, can be deceiving. By building a fake archive using AI imagery, Lina shows the anxiety around digital manipulation and its ability to affect human recollection abilities within the collective cultural memory. The chemical manipulation of the film development process allows the artist to engage with the notion of chance and helplessness while addressing the deterioration of memory and its physical counterparts. Through metaphorical folklore inspired poetry used in moving image and printed formats, the artist goes back to the history of memory-making. In her latest projects, Lina strives to find a unification point of personal and collective and goes as far as to argue that there is no such thing as “personal memory”. The artist combines found footage, personal archives, and a degree of assumptive plausibility to playfully interact with memory recordings from obscured time periods. By utilizing used discarded SD cards and analog projector slides, Lina builds a body of work that brings together imagery from anonymous and disparate sources and eventually builds another re-imagined archive.
2024
Group Exhibition, International Body of Art, In Search of Some Phantom, Crypt Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition, Forbidden Land, Photobook Cafe, London.
Group Exhibition, Fringe Arts Bath, Fallacious Memory, Walcot Chapel, Bath.
2023
Group Exhibition, Neverwhere, Kupfer Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition, Savoring Shadows, Copeland Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition, Manifold Space, Home Away from Home, House of Annetta, London.
RCA Graduate Show, Truman Brewery.
Group Exhibition, Rencontres d’Arles, off-RCA, Atelier Alonso, Arles.
Group Exhibition, Patterns and Structures, Gallery V, Cambridge.
Awards, Prizes
2023 Metro Imaging Mentorship Award
2023 Graduate Art Prize
Publications and Press
“Visual Narratives: Dijital Junk”, Dereal Digital. https://www.derealdigital.com/dijitaljunk, 2024.
“With No Orbit”, RCA Graduate Publication, 2023.
Hintology Magazine, Issue 1, 2023.
Workshops
2024 “Upcycling your own art practice: Transferring trinkets into Digital Collage Workshop” hosted by IBA, London.
Education
2023 MA, Photography, Royal College of Art, London.
2021 BA, History of Art, University College London