Upcoming:
Penelope, The Weaving of Fate — dance performance on the beach at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, as part of the Matrimoine Days, Sunday, September 20 at 3:00 p.m.
Wait, Penelope... — a duo exhibition with Annie Lenoir at Espace Michel Frérot, Thaon, September 25–27, 2026.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, with the Métamorphoses Association, Bretteville-sur-Odon, 2027.
Abysses, group exhibition with the Dire Autrement collective, La Bouée, Cherbourg, 2027.
Lena h. Coms is a multidisciplinary neo-symbolist artist. His painting resembles a frozen theatre, which a serial process tends to make mobile, like an accumulation of freeze frames that seem to come to life from one moment to the next. His series are accompanied by variations in texts, sculpture, textiles, even video. This serial process questions our relationship to society, to the individual, to their otherness and to their mythical and founding imaginations.
She discovered art and theater in high school. Eligible for the Beaux-Arts de Caen, she studied Classical Literature and then Performing Arts at the University of Caen while taking evening classes and staging her first plays. Passionate about symbolism, his doctoral research focuses on the puppet practice of the Nabis:The Puppet Theater, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
Active in several art and cultural associations, she gives conferences and artistic workshops. She creates her theater company,Naos, in 2022.
Conferences
"Embellishments, Deformations and Monstrosities in Art"
Inter-Age University of Bayeux, 2022-2023
"The couple in art", Inter-Age University, Bayeux, 2021-2022
Nanouk of the North at the Café des images, Hérouville Saint-Clair
(film school), 2016
Participation in university conferences (Paris, Hamburg, Glasgow, Charleville-Mézières) on 19th century theatre, women in the arts, puppet theatre, Nabis and Alfred Jarry (2013-2017)
Workshops /
Workshops
La Source Garouste – La Guéroulde, Animated Nature — kamishibai on the theme of chimeras with preschool classes, 2026
“We Are Made of the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of”, duo project with The Grunge Fairy, La Source Garouste – La Guéroulde, 2024
Me, My Body and Others / Educational City, multidisciplinary project bringing together artists from Le Labo des Arts, workshops at Hawking Middle School, 2024
Biotechnology — artistic week-long project in duo with musician Yann Fontbonne, UFCV – Montsecret summer camp, 2023
Me, My Body and Others / Educational City, multidisciplinary project bringing together artists from Le Labo des Arts, workshops at Lechanteur Middle School (Caen) — SEGPA class, 2023
The Forest of Metamorphoses, workshop with the IMAJEU photographers' collective during the Chants d’Elles Festival, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, 2021
Mask and Costume Workshop, duo project with Baptiste Vanweydeveldt / Prévert Project, La Centrifugeuz, 2019
Knitting and Crochet Workshop, 17B Venoix, Caen, 2017–2024
Knitting and Crochet Workshops in Various Venues
(Colombelles Library, Le Labo des Arts, La Centrifugeuz, Les Boréales), 2017–2024
Teaching /
Education
Philosophy of art and architecture, Aden training, Archi/Design preparation, Caen, 2021-202
General culture, Aden training, Archi/Design preparation, Caen, 2021-2022
The history of art, Aden training, Archi/Design preparation, Caen, 2020-2021
Workshop Book/Edition, Aden training, Archi/Design preparation, Caen, 2020-2021
critical analysis and archival research (performing arts), University of Caen-Normandy, 2016-2018
Private lessons (drawing, painting, writing, theatre, plural arts, general culture), 2016-2022
Training
Workshops and associative life /
Workshops and community life
Creation of performances: for actors or puppets, object theatre — directing and playwriting; writing plays for actors or puppets, 2008–2026
Participation in numerous workshops (2008–2022): theatre and dance; Création Habitants with Mickaël Phelippeau at the Caen National Choreographic Centre (CCN), 2018
President of the Naos association (2022–2026)
Board member of the artistic association “Métamorphoses” (2018–2026)
Vice-Secretary of the Association of Friends of the Caen Theatre (2009–2011)
President of the Néo-Symboliste Collective association (2010–2011)
Volunteer at the Charleville International Puppet Theatre Festival (2013–2017)
Doctorate, Preparation ofthesis on the puppet theater of Nabis artists and anarchist reviews, 2013-2019
Master 1 and 2 Performing Arts– Theater, Archives speciality, thesis on "the Theater of the Puppet, the engaged theater of the Nabis'", 2011-2013
Performing arts license– Theater, University of Caen, 2008-2012
License 1 Classics Letters– evening classes at the Beaux-Arts de Caen/ESAM (illustration, nude modelling), 2007-2008
General baccalaureate Series L, major Plastic Arts option, Latin and Greek options, Alençon, 2004-2007
Modeling/casting course, nude drawing, design at the Center d'Art Contemporain, Alençon, 2004-2007
Art residences
Performances
La Source Garouste – La Guéroulde, Animated Nature — kamishibai on the theme of chimeras with preschool classes, 2026
Residency at Le Labo des Arts (14000 Caen)
March 2021 – June 2024
La Source Garouste – La Guéroulde, “We Are Made of the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of”, duo project with The Grunge Fairy, 2024
Traversée 3 / Broadway Gallery, Nottingham (UK), 2023
Le retour d'Ulysse, performance dansée, compagnie Naos à la Bar'Acc, journée du matrimoine 2024
Sur le ring, Les trois Parques, Bernay, 2023
Les Trois Glaucé, Les femmes dans les mythes de la création, Association Métamorphoses, Saint-Pierre-sur-Dive, 2022
Les Trois Glaucé, Les femmes dans les mythes de la création, Association Métamorphoses, Thaon, 2021