Ana Lekše
Ana Lekše inhabits the tension between gravity and memory. Through aerial rope, hair hanging, and suspended movement, she creates poetic rituals that map inner landscapes, where past and present intertwine. The body becomes archive, vessel, and cipher — tracing lines of longing, transformation, and stillness in motion.
Her upcoming work Reverie of the Bestiaries journeys into a mythic realm of beasts and metamorphosis. The excerpt Fáfnir evokes the dragon’s coil, a dance between beauty and threat, the known and the monstrous.
In her earlier works, Ana has already shown a dedication to layering narratives:
- What Have I Found in the Attic is a delicate reflection on loss and grief — a memoir to her late grandfather that explores the residue of forgotten spaces and the intimacy of memory.
- Tangle links connection and entrapment, letting lines cross and diverge.
- Bad Choices and String Theory probe risk, causality, and the unseen forces that pull us.
Her performance practice is not only about physical suspension — it is emotional, temporal suspension. She invites us to linger in thresholds, to feel the in-between, and to let the rope and hair trace the invisible lines that connect inner terrain to outer space.
…Happiness is hanging from the Rope…