Linda Agata Senya
A woman free, Paris, 2025
Hahnemühle Photo Rag UltraSmooth 305g
70 x 105 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Summer Spotlights.
The gallery is pleased to introduce this experimental slot within its programme, focusing prior to the summer closure on showing emerging artists that may otherwise not have a gallery representation or a platform in which to exhibit their work publicly.
Still Beating
Where the City Touches the Skin
Still Beating is a photographic love letter to the first days of summer — when the city begins to breathe differently, and bodies move with both slowness and urgency.
Like a symphony of portraits, the work unfolds mostly in Paris. Across portraits and nude studies, the images trace the quiet poetry of presence: a glance held, a gesture paused, a shoulder resting against a wall. The body is never static — it waits, leans, retreats, or opens. Always there, always in motion.
Between public space and private interior, these photographs observe without intruding. They listen for what’s unspoken: the softness of light on skin, the moment before a gaze turns away. The female nude recurs not as symbol, but as form — strong, tender, distracted, at ease. A living presence.
The many female portraits play at the edge of reality and fiction — gestures imagined or remembered — and in their openness, they become declarations of freedom: to be seen, to drift, to remain undefined.
The city itself tells a story — its walls and windows, its shadows and rhythms, becoming emotional counterpoints to the bodies they frame.
There is tension and release, distance and closeness, quiet humor and quiet ache. But above all, there is care — a deep attention to what it means to be somewhere, fully, even briefly.
Even in stillness, the heart keeps time.
Still beating.
Like a symphony of portraits, the work unfolds mostly in Paris. Across portraits and nude studies, the images trace the quiet poetry of presence: a glance held, a gesture paused, a shoulder resting against a wall. The body is never static — it waits, leans, retreats, or opens. Always there, always in motion.
Between public space and private interior, these photographs observe without intruding. They listen for what’s unspoken: the softness of light on skin, the moment before a gaze turns away. The female nude recurs not as symbol, but as form — strong, tender, distracted, at ease. A living presence.
The many female portraits play at the edge of reality and fiction — gestures imagined or remembered — and in their openness, they become declarations of freedom: to be seen, to drift, to remain undefined.
The city itself tells a story — its walls and windows, its shadows and rhythms, becoming emotional counterpoints to the bodies they frame.
There is tension and release, distance and closeness, quiet humor and quiet ache. But above all, there is care — a deep attention to what it means to be somewhere, fully, even briefly.
Even in stillness, the heart keeps time.
Still beating.
Exhibition text: Stephanie Marie Guido-Bisgaard
About the Artist
Linda Agata Senya is a self-taught Danish-Tanzanian photographer based in Paris, working across reportage, portraiture, and fashion. Her work is shaped by years of travel and a sharp sensitivity to light, color, people, and place — always grounded in emotional presence and quiet observation.
Moving between the street and the studio, she blends raw documentary with the structure of fashion imagery, often placing the human body — especially the female form — within architectural or emotionally charged spaces.
Deeply attuned to sculpture and thresholds — both physical and emotional — Senya sees the nude not merely as a body, but as form: sculptural, elemental, and often touching the realm of mythology. Her figures reflect an idealised beauty that feels both timeless and slightly illusory — never distant, but alive with quiet tension.
Her photographs have appeared in international magazines and news outlets, with a body of work that spans nude studies, editorial fashion, and visual essays rooted in real life. Through a lens both composed and instinctive, she captures the tension between stillness and motion, intimacy and form.
Moving between the street and the studio, she blends raw documentary with the structure of fashion imagery, often placing the human body — especially the female form — within architectural or emotionally charged spaces.
Deeply attuned to sculpture and thresholds — both physical and emotional — Senya sees the nude not merely as a body, but as form: sculptural, elemental, and often touching the realm of mythology. Her figures reflect an idealised beauty that feels both timeless and slightly illusory — never distant, but alive with quiet tension.
Her photographs have appeared in international magazines and news outlets, with a body of work that spans nude studies, editorial fashion, and visual essays rooted in real life. Through a lens both composed and instinctive, she captures the tension between stillness and motion, intimacy and form.