Elena Bajo

MA Central Saint Martins, London

Elena Bajo's concept-generated practice is concerned with the social and political dimensions of everyday spaces, the strategies to conceptualize resistance, the poetics of ideologies, and the relationship between temporalities and subjectivities. She works individually and collectively across installation, sculpture, painting, performance, participatory events, film, text and writing. She uses exhibition spaces as studios or laboratories, where an experimental, itinerant, sitespecific performed sculpture unfolds, improvised actions and choreographed movements. Having as a point of departure art production processes, working with places as they are given to her and limited by the materials available around them, she rearranges these found elements into a new composition, juxtaposing the identities of prefigured social and political spaces and dimensions, creating a sometimes cryptic but always revealing new code of signifiers. A restaging of a space and time, of the past, into future events that uses chance, contingency and ambiguity of the moment

ELENA BAJO

Born in Madrid, Spain Lives and works in Los Angeles, New York and Berlin  
email: elena@elenabajo.com   webpage:   www.elenabajo.com
Education

2005   Central Saint Martins School of Art London UK MA Fine Arts
2006   Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Maine USA
2002   ESARQ School of Architecture Barcelona Spain MA Architecture
Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012 Elena Bajo Reconstructing of the Common D+T Project Brussels Belgium
         Elena Bajo The Factory of Forms Manifesta Parallel Genk Belgium
         Elena Bajo The Factory of Forms Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht NL        
2011 Elena Bajo The Pervasive Element Frieze Art Fair FRAME D+T Project Curated by Cecilia
         Alemani and Rodrigo Moura London (c)
         Elena Bajo On Uncertain Terms s/t Center for Contemporary Art and Culture Berlin Germany (c)
2010 Elena Bajo The Moon is a Harsh Mistress The Woodmill London UK (c)
2008 Elena Bajo The Divided Line Museum of the City Puerto Lumbreras Explum Murcia Spain (c)
2007 Elena Bajo The Garden of Dreams Museum of the City Galway Ireland (c)
Selected Group Exhibitions

2012 Who told you so? #2 Truth vs. Organization Onomatope Eindhoven NL
         The Absence ...

-ELENA BAJO The Factory of Forms Manifesta 9 Parallel Onderwijslaan 4, Waterschei, Genk-B June 1 - September 30, 2012
-ELENA BAJO The Factory of Forms Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht-NL June 9 - September 30, 2012

RESIDENCIES
-Studio Time: Work of the Living Watch led by Geoffrey Farmer runs with The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13) The Banff Centre for the Arts, AB, Canada July 30th- August 17th, 2012