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      FLASH/PUNCH/GLOW    
       APROPOSITIONS (

       ___ (breath, blow, kiss)
               ___ (b,b, kiss) LIVE
       blowout i-iv

       ( breathingspace
       OVER_ EXPOSURE (REST
       ABSENT SKIN
       SEVERAL/GLOW (x y z
       CONVERSION (glow)
       continual (
       NOWNES(S(ESS_
       SONGS TO THE SUNS
               WE (   live
     
       RED PATIENCE        
       PERISTYLE
               CHOR(EOGRAPH)VS
       DESIRE
        BLUE-BARBAR-BRAID
               FORM(UL)ATIONS
               Vessels (black, gold    
       Simple Form(ation)s
               Portraits
       ALL THAT GLITTERS
       SOFTNESS
       Beginnings (Odyssey)

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        ~LETHE


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Bio (E)

Izidora l LETHE is a conceptually-driven and material-oriented artist. Their research-based work aims at expanding canonical histories and situating neglected or invisible knowledge such as the ones inscribed in the body as epistemological orientation. LETHE’s practice pour out into site-responding installations consisting of choreography, performance, sculpture, video, print and writing.

Their most recent exhibitions include Kunsthalle Bielefed (D), Kunsthaus Zurich, the Swiss National Library (Berne, CH), Kunsthalle Zurich (CH), Edition VFO (Löwenbräu, ZH), Werkschau (Haus Konstruktiv, ZH), COURONNE/KRONE (Biel) (2022), SHEDHALLE (Zurich) (2021), the Leslie Lohman Museum (New York City) (2021); Cabaret Voltaire at Monte Verità (TI) (2021), The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM, San Francisco, CA) (2019-2020); San Jose State University; The DeYoung Museum (2017, San Francisco, CA) etc. Upcoming is a solo-exhibition at Et Al Gallery in San Francisco and the Swiss Art Awards 2023.

LETHE's work has been awarded several scholarships as they received a merit-based and full fellowship for their MFA studies at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) (2015-2017), the CIBC Emerging Artist Scholarship Endowment, Canada (2018), the juried post-graduation fellowship at Hunters Point Studios (2017-2018) and received both their BFA and her MFA with honors. LETHE is a BANFF Centre for the Arts resident (Banff, Canada, 2018), as well as an IMA fellowship program of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA, 2019) fellow. Currently, they are a BINZ39 studio resident (Zurich, 2022-24).  LETHE received their MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI, 2017) and their BFA from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, ZHdK.

Transmitting their practice into educational frameworks, LETHE teaches embodied classes, art history and theory and critique seminars as visiting faculty at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle, 2020), the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI, 2017-2020), ETH Zürich Architektur und Kunst and currently at HSLU K++V Lucerne.



Bio (D)

Izidora l LETHE ist ein:e transdisziplinäre und konzeptuelle Künstler:in. LETHE’s Praxis umfasst Skulptur, Choreographie und Video - begleitet von korrespondierenden Zeichnungs- und Schreibprozessen. LETHE’s recherche-basierte Arbeit orientiert sich an der Ausweitung von lückenhafter Geschichtsübermittlung und situiert den Körper als epistemologischer Ort und als Archiv des Wissens.

Izidora I LETHE's jüngste Ausstellungen fanden statt in der Edition VFO (Löwenbräu, ZH), Werkschau (Haus Konstruktiv, ZH), COURONNE/KRONE (Biel) (2022), Leslie-Lohman Museum (New York City, 2021-22); Bass and Rainer Gallery (2021), The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM, San Francisco, 2019/20); Aggregate Space Gallery (Oakland, 2018) und dem De Young Museum (San Francisco, 2017). LETHE erhielt den Leistungsabhängigen 'full ride' fellowship für das Masterstudium in den USA, als auch den IMA-Fellowship der New York Foundation for the Arts (2018) und die unabhängige Artist Residency in BANFF, Centre for the Arts, Kanada (2018) und hält das BINZ39 Atelierstipendium (Zürich) (2022-24). LETHE absolvierte den MFA am San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI, 2017) und BFA an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK, 2013).

LETHE übermittelt die Recherche der Praxis in der Lehre und unterrichtet Körperpraxen in der Gegenwartskunst, Kritikseminare, Kunstgeschichte und -Theorie unter anderem an der University of Washington (UW, Seattle, 2020), dem San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI, 2017-2020) in den Vereinigten Staaten, an der ETH Zürich Architektur und Kunst und momentan an der HSLU K++V Luzern.





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