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The smell of hay. A wall warmed by the sun. Water lapping beneath a dock. There was a time when the world was present and certain. But now something’s not right, a conflict between human beings and a world which is no longer passive. The sea no longer provides, the forest is silent. That which we previously could do without thinking is no longer possible. The Hand Breathes With the World is an attempt to return to a relationship to the world built on reciprocity. The craft is a way to re-create that which has been lost between man and world. In the experience of relating to a material, we’re forced to listen to powers outside of ourselves. To understand the world through our hands.
Wool, wood, the hand’s work. This exhibition shows tapestries as portraits of a landscape and of the material itself. The loom as a sculptural form, where its relationship to the human body is allowed to expand out into the room.
I’ve been a working artist on Gotland for a few years now and I work with the material around me. Often that’s wool, and not only to make use of a local resource that otherwise lacks commercial value. It also puts me in direct relation to this place, to the landscape, and to the knowledge of sheep farmers and the network around the material. |
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Petter Hellsing i samtal med Anneli Dufva
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| dramaturg och redaktör på Dramaten, |
| Ett samtal kring konsten och hantverkets möjligheter att möta ett material genom handens kunskap. Om den kreativa processen och det kroppsliga minnet. Men också om världen vi befinner oss i – kan hantverket läka relationen natur och människa. |
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