Léna Lewis-King

Dell’historia Naturale (of Natural History) 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.

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