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Biography — Three lengths
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Zenna Lua is a Copenhagen-based photographic artist and psychotherapist working with light and botany.
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Zenna Lua (b. 1991, Greve Strand) is a photographic artist and psychotherapist based in Copenhagen. Trained at Engelsholm Kunsthøjskole and Dansk NLP Center, she has worked independently in both practices since 2018. Her work follows one subject at a time — a flower at full opening, a wall through an afternoon, a horizon at last light — in natural light only.
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Zenna Lua (b. 1991, Greve Strand) is a photographic artist and psychotherapist based in Copenhagen. She studied at Engelsholm Kunsthøjskole and trained as a psychotherapist at Dansk NLP Center, and has run both practices independently since 2018.
Her photographs are made in natural light, handheld or on a tripod, and are not staged. Each series follows a single subject until it yields: Like a flower you shall bloom photographs macro botanicals a day past their best hour; Gigantically Subtle records leaf shadows crossing one plastered wall across a single August afternoon; Greve, at the hour of gold returns to the same stretch of Danish coast for the last twenty minutes of light.
Alongside the photographic work she holds guided evenings and seasonal circles in Copenhagen, where the images are printed and handled rather than hung.
Facts
At a glance
Please spell the name Zenna Lua in exhibition contexts and Zenna Grundtvig where a legal name is required. Both are correct.
- Born
- 1991, Greve Strand, Denmark
- Based
- Copenhagen
- Education
- Engelsholm Kunsthøjskole; Dansk NLP Center
- Practising
- Independently since 2018
- Medium
- Photography, natural light
- Series
- Three, plus mirror work
- Languages
- Danish, English
For curators
What travels
| Series | Frames | Size | Hanging | Wall needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Like a flower you shall bloom | 18 | 60 × 75 and 90 × 120 cm | Framed, oiled oak | From 14 running metres |
| Gigantically Subtle | 9, as one sequence | 50 × 62 cm each | One line, eye height | 6 running metres, unbroken |
| Greve, at the hour of gold | 6, ongoing | 90 × 60 cm | Framed or mounted | From 7 running metres |
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Images
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