Sena Cleave (she/they)
February 2024
Sena Cleave is an artist living in the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ peoples, or Vancouver, Canada. Working in sculpture, photographic experiments, and language, they address il/legibility and hybridity in contemporary Japanese diasporic experiences. They pilfer scraps of cultural matter from everyday life (including objects, images and textual passages) and recombine them. The scraps become recontextualized among one another and generate something resembling a whole—one that is jumbled and misbehaving. Together with Debbie Chan, Cleave runs The Couch, a mobile art space consisting of a couch and a coffee table.
Image: Sena Cleave
Concrete: found objects by Sena Cleave
artists hiking in Keremeos. Image Credit: Sena Cleave
artists hiking in Keremeos. Image Credit: Chris Macleod
Sena Cleave working with a loom in the Studio
Bundle Stone, sculpture, Sena Cleave, 2024
Bundle Stone, sculpture, Sena Cleave, 2024
untitled weaving experiments, Sena Cleave, 2024
found objects from a walk, Sena Cleave, 2024
untitled weaving experiments, Sena Cleave, 2024