November 2022
Sat26Nov(Nov 26)00:00Sat14January(Jan 14)00:00
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Public viewing Saturday, January 14 at 1:00 PM
Welcome to a viewing of the exhibition.
Free admission, no pre-registration required.
A cat among ermines is a group exhibition that shows a selection of nine contemporary artists who work with the textile material and its techniques in different ways.
The techniques and themes with which the exhibiting artists approach textiles are very different. Textiles can often be rolled up or folded, but when given the space to unfold, they can take over the space. However, one of the things that brings the works in the exhibition together is that they are right here, right now, and that they take up space.
But what place do they take? The title, A cat among ermines, refers to a person who has entered an environment where they are not of as fine a background as the others. The title therefore refers to textile art at the Academy of Fine Arts. The textile art exhibitions at the Academy of Fine Arts have been few over the years. The reasons for this are of course multi-faceted, some of which can be seen in the fact that the education provided at the Academy of Fine Arts has been given in other materials and techniques and that textile art has historically not had the same position within the artistic field as, for example, painting or sculpture. But, is what we are now seeing a loosening of the concepts?
Exhibiting artists:
Anna Nordström, Emma Hasselblad, Emilia Sundqvist, Gustaf Helsing, Jonathan Josefsson, Josefin Gäfvert, Klara Berge, Lilian Saksi, Sara Kallioinen Lundgren.
Caption: Detail from Emma Hasselblad's "With a taste of poison paradise" 2022.
Photo Lisa Hallgren.
Jonathan Josephson
Jonathan Josefsson (1978) holds an MFA in Textile Art from HDK (2007) and lives in Gothenburg. Josefsson has a background in graffiti and works primarily with textiles and painting, often in the form of tufted rugs. The rugs are abstract color experiments in organic forms where improvisation and desire guide the work.
www.jonathanjosefsson.com
Emilia Sundqvist
Emilia Sundqvist (1993) holds an MFA in Craft Textile from Konstfack (2020) and lives in Stockholm. Sundqvist works with textile, upholstered sculptures with carefully sewn visible stitches. Sundqvist wants to create a comforting empire of creatures and artistic images that play with associations and symbols from childhood fairy tales and the doubts and dreams of adulthood.
www.emiliasundqvist.com
Clara Berge
Klara Berge (1987) holds an MFA in Craft Textile from Konstfack (2019) and lives in Uddebo. Berge wants to use her art to highlight the importance of contemplative spaces, create space for wonder and an experience of magic in life. Through materiality, she approaches the immaterial and the wordless, looking for doors into mental realms to create spaces to step into with both body and mind.
The thread is the material basis of her artistry, as well as the main tool. For Berge, the thread is as present in the drawn line as in the textile thread that extends into space. With lines, she creates relationships between different positions in time and space, in the borderland between emptiness and form.
www.klaraberge.com
Emma Hasselblad
Emma Hasselblad (1991) holds an MFA in Textile Art from HDK (2019) and lives in Stockholm. Hasselblad explores knitting in relation to the body, architecture, history and knitting traditions. She knits because in knitting there is the opportunity to explore shapes, silhouettes, different textures, colors and color combinations. She explores the possibilities that knitting itself has: the flexible, moving material that the knitted fabric allows.
www.emmahasselblad.com
Liilian Saksi
Liilian Saksi (1989) holds an MFA in Textile Art from KHiO (2017) and lives in Skotterud, Norway. Saksi’s work is based on wool from her own flock of sheep. Using handspun as her basic technique, she constructs textile surfaces through the braiding technique Språngning. The works function as variations, where the interplay of colors and interaction with the material is a recurring theme.
www.liiliansaksi.com
Sara Kallioinen Lundgren
Sara Kallioinen Lundgren (1993) holds an MFA in Craft Textiles from Konstfack (2021) and lives in Stockholm. The starting point of Kallioinen Lundgren's work is a view of the artistic process as a meeting between verbal and nonverbal communication, where the materials are allowed to act as the voice and body language for text and image. She uses different materials and techniques to distort and reformulate her messages.
www.sarakallioinenlundgren.com
Josefin Gäfvert
Josefin Gäfvert (1988) holds an MFA in Craft Textiles from Konstfack (2021) and lives in Stallarholmen. The works shown in the exhibition are double-sided fabrics made from wool and rags, hand-woven on a damask loom. Throughout the process, Gäfvert has worked intuitively and taken advantage of the ideas that have come to her during the work. Each line in the fabric testifies to this thought process.
www.josefingafvert.com
Anna Nordstrom
Anna Nordström (1984) holds an MFA in Textile Art from Konstfack (2014) and lives in Stockholm. Nordström submits to a repetitive (patch) technique, which is a kind of rebellion while also performing unavoidable self-help. The process of cutting, arranging and joining creates a bubble around her, the artist's chair, her iPhone, the bench, the polyester satin and the sewing machine. Inside, Nordström has slowed down time, and can influence time and space with her work. The subject's mouth is drawn up into a tight "archaic smile".
www.nnnrdstrm.com
Gustaf Helsing
Gustaf Helsing (1993) holds a BFA in Textiles from Konstfack (2019) and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Craft and lives in Stockholm. In woven images, Helsing explores the feeling of and fear of loss in the encounter with change and acceleration, as well as the actual loss of privilege, and how these feelings and fears are expressed and what consequences these expressions can have. An overarching movement in his practice is movement, from past to present. And it is this movement that raises the questions or problems that constitute his practice. What past is it that he transforms, translates, or reshapes into the present presence of the woven images?
www.gustafhelsing.se