Curated
Lena Mara
Painting at the edge of legibility.
Lena Mara builds surfaces that hover between image and erasure — oil worked, scraped back, and worked again.
Works
Wax & Water, 2024
Oil and wax on panel · 60 × 50 cm
Courtesy the artist and Paris Talents.
Within Paris Talents
Exhibition
Thresholds
Galerie Nord, Paris · 27 Jun 2026 – 25 Sep 2026
Exhibition
Seuils
Galerie Nord, Paris · 27 Jun 2026 – 25 Sep 2026
Exhibition
The Weight of Light
Fondation Rivière, Lyon · 15 Sep 2022 – 8 Jan 2023
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Essay
On Thresholds
Reading the edge of legibility in Lena Mara's painting — and what it asks of the person standing in front of it.
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Research
The Economics of Attention
If attention is the scarce resource of the moment, what does it mean to sell work that asks for more of it rather than less? A short paper on slow looking and the market.
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Catalogue
The Weight of Light
Essays and plates from the Lyon exhibition.
Curriculum vitae
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