Elena Bajo (b.1975, Spain) lives between Berlin and Los-Angeles. Her 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

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Selected Recent Exhibitions
2013
La Casa Social Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Arco Madrid, Section Opening curated by Manuel Segade & Solo Objects curated by Manuel Blanco
2012
Brussels Cologne Contemporaries, Brussels
The Abscence of work, Plateform 3, Munich
The Factory of Forms / Manifesta 9 Parralel Events, Genk, Limburg, Belgium
The Factory of Forms, Jan van Eijck Academy, Maastricht
Reconstructing of the Common, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels
Who told you so ! Onomatopee, Eindhoven
Performance Project curated by Burkhard Meltzer, Liste, Basel
2011
Frieze Frame art Fair London , D+T Project Gallery, Curated by Cecilia Alemani and Rodrigo Moura (c)
Uncommon Places: Reinventing the Everyday Extra City Antwerp / ICI New York, Curated by Pieter Vermeulen (c)
Studies for an Exhibition | The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, curated Mathieu Copeland (c)
Love Letters to a Surrogate Stage ll | MUHKA, Antwerp