Visitors 2018

Kaja Leijon. Recent exhibitions include the solo shows 'Dark Haven' at Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (2017); 'Altro Mondo' at Space 4235, Genova (2016); and 'Another World' at MELK Gallery, Oslo (2015). Her work has been presented at Kunsthalle Mainz; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Galleria Muratcentoventidue Artecontemporanea, Bari; and Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. Leijon holds a degree from the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo.
The last decade Kaja Leijon has divided her artistic practice into two entities; film and photography. Her work aspires towards a plausible fictional universe, though the premise of the linear and reliable narrative is vaguely destabilised by a candid approach to visual anecdotes. Her movies often insinuate questions concerning the human condition, where existential problems like alienation, ineptitude and loneliness are epitomised. Her photographs illuminate the neglected and omitted, functioning as a harbour and lawyer for the allure of the seemingly riven. These elements and vistas, like the human fates she describes in her movies, inhabits universal qualities momentous in their essence. They are poetry manifested as photographs, balancing on the fine line of potential failure, seeking shelter in fragility.