Leena Mertanen (b. 1986, Finland) is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on dramatic, expressive and visually explosive unique (sculptures; works on paper + canvas) conceptual artworks and reproducible lens-based mediums such as narrative, often staged self-portraits in digital format, analog black + white photography and printmaking. She also works with audio, poetry, experimental single-channel film and video with consistent themes creating different discipline bodies of works about what it is to be human, a woman, a person and she also takes a stand in politics, human rights and examines academically the history of her current mediums. Art to her means being alive and Mertanen is driven about the subject, the primus motor in each of her artworks - it varies. Sometimes it is the theme, often the research or the creative process itself. She engages her audience in a rhythmic manner to take part in the world of hers, as well as wanting her pieces to live in theirs. Curious about what can be said and done via different ”isms”, Mertanen is highly intuitive and intelligent in her work and she is in a notable collection of Matthew Hockley Smith and various other collections worldwide.
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