Emanuel Licha is an artist based in Paris. His work focuses on public space and architecture, leading to a reading of the features of the urban landscape as so many social, historical, and political signs. His recent projects investigate the means by which traumatic and violent events are being looked at, and are shown as video installations.
His solo exhibitions include SBC Gallery, Montreal ; Loop Barcelona ; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris ; Ex-Teresa, México City ; CareOf, Milan ; YYZ, Toronto.
Other exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, New York ; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal ; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa ; Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon ; MACBA, Barcelona ; Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon ; Literaturhaus, Munich ; HMKV, Dortmund ; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam ; Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck ; the Tirana Biennial ; Steirischer Herbst, Graz ; Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
He teaches at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette.
www.emanuel-licha.com