Visibles invisibles

The aim of my work is to render visible the fluctuation between absent and present events, connecting the human body to spaces, as stages or moments of a story. The photographs exhibit the internal scars of migration, the longing for something that is not, is far away, or is gone, dichotomies between the inward and the outward worlds, between what is visible and what is invisible. I seek to convey the process of thinking to an intermediate space of representations or images of what life and death are. My method is classic; I respect what already exists.

Lena Szankay is an Argentine-German artist who decided to emigrate seven months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989. Her passion for photography aroused about 1986, in Argentina, at a time when this discipline was still questioned in the artistic milieu. She attended classes at the studio of the renowned photographer E. Gil. She took part in the first meetings and colloquiums of Latin-American photography, in Brazil and Argentina, where she was able to interchange experiences with other professionals. Her artistic development and professional improvement were carried on in Berlin, where she had lived until 2007. Now she is restarting her argentinian way of life