 | Top show blood lines |
May, 15th - June 21st 2009
During the last ten years, Fjellman has been active with exhibitions and commissioned public works both in Sweden and elsewhere in the world. She completed her study at Konstfack, Stockholm 1998, Glass and Ceramics, and her work has since focused on asking questions about the general opinions, aesthetic considerations and nature versus culture in our society. In Sweden, Fjellman is better known for her installations where various Nordic animals are placed within the meeting point of nature and culture.
Arts and crafts are a starting point, and the way this is challenged is of great importance to her work. She sees arts and crafts as a major accessible arena and as a relatively unexplored category, where there are still a lot that can be changed, discovered and added.
Frida Fjellman is represented in a large number of institutions in Sweden, and has currently several exhibitions in the USA and in Europe. She is one of nine members of the art and crafts group "We work in an Fragile Material". WWIAFM -working to find new ways for cooperation and presentation of the arts and crafts.
See: FridaFjellman
The artist comments her exhibition ‘Top show blood line’ at TWT as follows:
"Top show blood lines is an exhibition where the dog, man's best friend, is central.
Three-dimensional images of what is close to us are often charged and complicated. Why is it so? The material - also glass or ceramic – these objects raise strong opinions and reactions. We associate certain motifs and materials such as ceramics, porcelain and glass to a specific environment in a specific context, that we often, without thinking unduly about it, have a clear view on. Many of us have learned to think in a certain way and we rarely reflect on why. When objects are moved out of their expected context, we are confused and no longer know what to think.
Arts and crafts are a starting point, and the way this is challenged is of great importance to her work. She sees arts and crafts as a major accessible arena and as a relatively unexplored category, where there are still a lot that can be changed, discovered and added.
Frida Fjellman is represented in a large number of institutions in Sweden, and has currently several exhibitions in the USA and in Europe. She is one of nine members of the art and crafts group "We work in an Fragile Material". WWIAFM -working to find new ways for cooperation and presentation of the arts and crafts.
See: FridaFjellman
The artist comments her exhibition ‘Top show blood line’ at TWT as follows:
"Top show blood lines is an exhibition where the dog, man's best friend, is central.
Three-dimensional images of what is close to us are often charged and complicated. Why is it so? The material - also glass or ceramic – these objects raise strong opinions and reactions. We associate certain motifs and materials such as ceramics, porcelain and glass to a specific environment in a specific context, that we often, without thinking unduly about it, have a clear view on. Many of us have learned to think in a certain way and we rarely reflect on why. When objects are moved out of their expected context, we are confused and no longer know what to think.
There is something a little creepy about a serious figurative image and it fascinates me. If there is an image of something we like, it is dismissed easily as banal or vulgar. Is it because of what was previously made in art history and the gadget world of ornaments, or is it the way we perceive these things that creates the problem? The motif in itself is often judged before it is seen or considered. And that's a shame. I want, with my objects, to make this visible, and to make the viewer aware of the problem and thus also open up for new ideas.
I have worked in all honesty and without irony, focusing primarily on the various dogs I have chosen, without knowing about or without focus primarily on resultant "style". Questions about learned opinions, contrasting ornament and sculpture, and who decides what and to whom, has returned constantly during the work process. We may simply connect the dog to decoration/ornament or to something that is not so complicated intellectually and then it is not ok? In that case, what a sad situation!
These are questions that I continue to study, now focusing on something that is more linked to the home and people, than before. Can the dog still be present?
Frida Fjellman"
Questions about the exhibition or prices, contact The G.U.N. Ladies at: info@thegunladies.com
Open every day from 0600-2400
I have worked in all honesty and without irony, focusing primarily on the various dogs I have chosen, without knowing about or without focus primarily on resultant "style". Questions about learned opinions, contrasting ornament and sculpture, and who decides what and to whom, has returned constantly during the work process. We may simply connect the dog to decoration/ornament or to something that is not so complicated intellectually and then it is not ok? In that case, what a sad situation!
These are questions that I continue to study, now focusing on something that is more linked to the home and people, than before. Can the dog still be present?
Frida Fjellman"
Questions about the exhibition or prices, contact The G.U.N. Ladies at: info@thegunladies.com
Open every day from 0600-2400
