Studio Lenca
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Season 17 continues with a magical episode!!! We meet artist STUDIO LENCA!!!! Studio Lenca is the working name of artist Jose Campos \\u2013 \\u2018Studio\\u2019 refers to a space for experimentation and constantly shifting place; \\u2018Lenca\\u2019 referring to the name of the artists ancestors from El Salvador.
Jose Campos was born in 1986 in La Paz, El Salvador and like many had to flee the country during its violent civil war during the late 1980s. He travelled to the US by land, illegally with his mother and grew up in the gaze of a strictly conservative administration - an \\u2018illegal alien\\u2019. Studio Lenca is focused on ideas surrounding difference, knowledge and visibility. He works with performance, video, painting and sculpture.
\\u2018When people ask me where I\\u2019m from, I never know how to answer. Born in El Salvador, growing up illegally in California then spending my adult life in the UK. What does that question mean and why do people ask it?\\u2019Studio Lenca\\u2019s process starts with personal memories and is underpinned by social activism and different forms of praxis.
Studio Lenca paintings tell an autobiographical story which navigates borders and identities destroyed, redrawn and erased through colonisation and war. The portraits depict the artist and his community proudly wearing hats and vibrant colours in noble defiance of the \\u2018western\\u2019 discourse around migration.
Campos lives and works in Margate, UK. His current studio is based at TKE Studios, founded by Tracey Emin. @TKEStudios
Follow @StudioLenca on Instagram and visit his official website: www.studiolenca.com
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