Lena Ylipää resides in Lainio, in the eastern part of the municipality of Kiruna. She moved back after she finished her studies at Konstfack (Stockholm) in 1996 and has been active in the region since then. The themes in her artistic work are close to her everyday life in northern Tornedalen and she engages with a variety of techniques and materials. Lately Ylipää has focused on drawing, where spacial design and interaction with the spectator are central to the works.
Ylipää has a great interest in societal structures, especially the processes of transformation and development that are currently happening in the north. Right now she is extra interested in norms and attitudes that touch on peripheral concepts as well as regional and cultural borders. And pine.
