Utstilling

Begynnelser uten slutt

The artists Elin Jarnehäll, Siri Pettersson, Lynn Gerstmair, Victoria Lopez and Elisabet Vik are working around questions of time and loss, seeking answers in processes of translation, reintervention and transformation. Telling stories - some deeply personal, others more universal, perhaps long left untold - offering new perspectives. The works emerge from and reflect on interconnectedness: between materials and bodies, between memory and matter, between what is seen and what remains in the dark. 

Opening: Thursday 9th of April 18.00 - 20.00.

Collisions and breaking points meet gestures of repair and continuation. Seemingly opposing elements are brought into relation, seeking a fragile balance. Entering portals, following traces, leaving the path - only to return eventually, altered through repetition and time. 

The exhibition brings together individual practices within contemporary textile art, presenting new works by MA1 Textile students from KHiO. Repetition and ongoing processes become modes of inquiry, unfolding in relation to one another - to us. 

The title is drawn from The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986) by Ursula K. Le Guin. Inspired by Le Guin’s proposition of the carrier bag as a narrative model - one that holds, carries, and connects rather than conquers - the exhibition approaches textile as a vessel: for stories, for memory and for beginnings without end. 

“When I came to write science-fiction novels, I came lugging this great heavy sack of stuff, my carrier bag full of wimps and klutzes, and tiny grains of things smaller than a mustard seed, and intricately woven nets which when laboriously unknotted are seen to contain one blue pebble, an imperturbably functioning chronometer telling the time on another world, and a mouse's skull; full of beginnings without ends, of initiations, of losses, of transformations and translations, and far more tricks than conflicts, far fewer triumphs than snares and delusions; full of space ships that get stuck, missions that fail, and people who don't understand.”

– Ursula K. Le Guin