Lene Marie Fossen for HRW
Lene Marie Fossen - Untitled Chios - 2015 - Archival pigment print - 60 x 80 cm - Edition of 5 + 1 AP - Courtesy of Lene Marie Fossens Estate - Gallery price 2.000 USD
Lene Marie Fossen
BIO
[18.08.1986 - 22.10.2019]
Lene Marie Fossen was an autodidact Norwegian photographer. She rejected the linear progression of time that forced her to go through puberty and stopped eating at the tender age of 10. She struggled with anorexia for the rest of her life. Fossen chose to be open about her disease and found her means of expression in photography.
She is best known for her revealing self-portraits, captured in an abandoned lepra hospital in Chios, Greece. Fossen was a master of composition, color and light, and her soulful portraits of victims of the refugee crisis on the island of Chios in Greece also bear witness of a unique photographer. ‘My photographs are not about Anorexia’ she said, ‘they are about human suffering.’
The documentary film Self-portrait featuring Lene Marie Fossen, produced by Margreth Olin, Katja Høgseth, and Espen Wallin, was released in 2020, a few months after Fossen had passed away. Self-portrait is a film about the power of art, but it also raises important questions about what treatment one who suffers from severe anorexia needs.
The traveling exhibition ‘Gatekeeper’ with the book published by Kehrer Verlag premiered in 2020 and was presented in several galleries and festivals in Norway. Gatekeeper will be presented at Helgeland Museum and Auckland Festival of Photography in 2021 and as a solo exhibition at Museum im Lagerhaus in St. Gallen, Switzerland in 2022.
This artwork is unframed and located in Oslo, Norway. WILLAS contemporary will facilitate artwork release within 21 days after payment. Can be picked up by the buyer, or shipped at the buyer´s expense.