3rd European textile and Fibre Art Festival - Catalogue

SIRI BERQVAM
Norway / Norvé©ija
Born 1977
Fossveien 14
0551 Oslo, Norway
Education
2006 MA – Bergen National
Academy of Arts, Norway
2004 BA – Bergen National
Academy of Arts, Norway
Selected exhibitions
2006 “The Annual State
Exhibition”, Kunstnernes
Hus, Oslo, Norway
“Textile Triennial”, Oslo
Kunstforening and Gallery
SOFT, Oslo, Norway
“Ung kunstscene på
Tullinløkka”, Oslo, Norway
“This is art”, MA exhibition,
Kunsthallen in Bergen,
Norway
2005 “Talente”, international
group exhibition, Munich,
Germany
I am interested in the homely and intimate as a
starting point for textile objects, which are
stitched together and embroidered using
digital embroidery. I have made a series of
objects, they are all immediately recognizable,
real and unreal at the same time.
I want my installations to appear as daily and
banal caricatures of reality. The soft materials
make them attractive in spite of the associations
to what exists within an ordinary
home. As they are all made in the same
material and with the same technique, they
appear uniform, as taken from the same
reality. Such ordinary things, like the waste
bin, have potential to express human experience
because of the natural presence of
these things in our lives.
The slowly process of making these objects
with textile and thread, piece by piece,
makes time visible. It becomes a silent
protest against the everyday pressure of
being rational, and to spend time doing
objects which are normally associated with
cheap consumption products.
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