Leena Kela

Leena Kela (Finland) is a performance artist, artistic director of the New Performance Turku Festival, a director of the Saari Residence and doctoral candidate at the University of the Arts Helsinki. In her works and research she explores dialogue between corporeality and materiality in performance art. She makes performances that play with and twist our relationship with everyday objects and phenomena and pose questions to our worldview. She has presented her performances in number of contexts in all the continents except in Antarctica.

Photographer: Christopher Hewitt