Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society2008: Foundation for a Civil Society
Irgin Sena
Irgin Sena works with consideration of time as a space and as a zone. The voids, the gaps in between, the seemingly unimportant, or the things that fail are what he pays attention to. While thinking about time, Sena also considers the effectiveness of the delay. He is interested in the duration of transitions and moments of in(activity). The idea of creating a score, a track and a timeline for the work, as one would do in music, has occupied him for some time. Irgin’s process has much to do with how we select what to see from what we merely look at.
Irgin Sena was born in Albania and lives and works in New York. He has a MFA from Hunter College. Inn 2007 the he received the ARRDHJE Award for Contemporary Art and in 2012 he was awarded the Marian Netter Award. Irgin has participated at Qui Vive, International Moscow Biennial for Young Art and New Insight, Chicago. His work has been shown at Futura- Center For contemporary Art, Prague; Art Chicago; Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis; Vanessa Quang Galerie, Paris; House am Lutzowplatz, Berlin; The National Gallery, Tirana and Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
Irgin Sena, There Was a Mirror in the Reanimation Clinic, 2009, Video installation, 4 min. 26 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Father's Cabinet, 2012, Video installation, 4 min. 50 sec. Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Untitled, 2010, Video projection and hanging screens, 15 × 54 in. (38.1 × 137.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, 0-8, 2009, Foam, video, and sound, 96 × 96 × 96 in. (243.84 × 243.84 × 243.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Irgin Sena, Forty 12 Forty, 2012, Video installation, looped, 29 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Foundation for a Civil Society
Olson Lamaj
Olson Lamaj works in several media including photography, video, painting and installation, though his work is typically serial photography executed over a long period of time. In addition, he makes site-specific work when inspired by a physical place. His training in the Italian academy has deeply impacted his practice, not only in his treatment of photography as an art medium, but also in his ability to notice and capture the absurdities, ironies, and contradictions that are a result of the unregulated and fast-paced change that characterizes contemporary urban Albania. As an artist who lives between two different worlds, Lamaj is sensitive to these transformations and shares the peculiar visions that this position affords him.
Born and raised in Albania, Olson Lamaj studied visual art in Milan where he has worked and lived for several years. He has participated in various exhibitions throughout Europe and in his native Albania.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tomaz Furlan and Olson Lamaj
October 9, 2012
Olson Lamaj, Torso 1, 2006, Digital photo, 391/2 × 271/2 in. (100.33 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Olson Lamaj, Shqipe, 2006, Digital photo, 391/2 × 271/2 in. (100.33 × 69.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Olson Lamaj, Photo Eater, 2011, Stop-motion video. Courtesy of the artist.
Olson Lamaj, Photo Eater. Courtesy of the artist.
Olson Lamaj, Albania From the Street, 2012, Photo book, 1113/16 × 85/16 in. (29.97 × 21.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Chang-Jung Wu
Chang-Jung Wu’s works, created using records of her life, daily imagination, and memories, often reveal her own story. Wu’s work explores a diverse group of issues including the global economy, energy supply, voice making, ecology, and visual sensory imagination giving an imagination with emotional dynamics; she combines spatial projections with other experimental images to express deeply personal ideas.
Chang-Jung Wu (born 1984 Taiwan), received her degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of The Arts, Taiwan in 2012. Her work has been shown recently at the The Taipei Digital Art Center, Manchester Chinese Centre for Contemporary Art, UK; The 58th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, the 2011 Venice Biennale, The 7th Busan International Video Festival, Korea, and in the exhibition Ambiguous Being: who is afraid of identity?, Berlin. Chang-Jung was the winner of the 2012 58th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen and the recommended new artist of Art Taipei 2010.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary VIII - Night Night Flower, 2011, Video installation, 3 min. 10 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary I - Pig Five Flower, 2010, Video installation, 3 min 10 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary XIII - The Kaleidoscopig Farm Cuckoo Clock, 2012, 12 projector synchronization, 3 min 30 sec.
Chang-Jung Wu, Documentary III - Slot Machine, 2010, Single channel video, 2 min 58 sec.
