Alex Colard

Gallery Steinsland Berliner – Linnéa Sjöberg – PANIK – February 19 to March 19, 2022 – Bondegatan 70 – Open Wed-Fri: 12—17, Sat: 12—16

ABOUT the artist
Linnéa Sjöberg b. 1983, has an MA at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Sjöberg’s recent projects can be described as performative research, embodying the subject of her interest to the point where no distinction can be made between her work and her persona. After acting as a career woman in a “real-life” performance for almost two years, Sjöberg turned into a tattoo artist, Salong Flyttkartong. More than strategic decisions, both projects developed in slow and naturally processes, and only became discernible as art works over time. The remnants of her actions is documented through text, printed matters, sculptures and textile works.
For updated portfolio and cv please contact:
info@linneasjoberg.com
https://www.linneasjoberg.com/

ABOUT the exhibition
Gallery Steinsland Berliner proudly presents PANIK, a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Linnéa Sjöberg. The exhibition is comprised of a series of woven works in varying materials executed between 2019-2022.

Linnéa Sjöberg’s artistry is characterized by a dedicated research practice wherein her own life conditions are continuously hypothesized and put to the test. In performative projects lengthy enough to border on personal life chapters, the artist has immersed herself in roles such as the striving business woman in Gtds4810 (2009-2011) and the unruly tattooist in Salong Flyttkartong (2012-2014). Cloaked in these characters she has gathered information concerning the implications of identity formation. In a chapter ending of sorts this information is processed and accounted for in the form of physical manifestations as varied as vacuum-sealed clothing, cardboard collages and intricate textile weavings executed on a traditional loom by the artist herself.

On view in PANIK are a number of woven works bursting with color and detail. The art of weaving, which has come to be a signature of Sjöberg, has a comforting origin in her childhood and more specifically her grandmother’s rag rugs that were woven together by the family’s old clothes. Similarly, Sjöberg’s own weaving has functioned as a way of presenting memories and archival material. The outfits previously worn during aforementioned Gtd4s810 were torn apart and woven into columns of professional blues and greys. The darkly toned 14-meter long woven piece titled Four Generations of Darkness (2016) consists of gathered materials found in the attic of her childhood home.

The woven pieces seen in PANIK contrast these previous works. Observable are motives and compositions suggesting a narrative and technical growth and perhaps even more so, a liberation of sorts. The color scale is generous and energetic, and the woven works are adorned with figurative motives and attached pieces of clothing. The last few years have brought with them a newfound personal focus for the artist. Secluded in her studio, weaving became something closer to a self-governing form of expression, rather than a recording of the past and performed.

Sjöberg’s weaving continues to reflect her artistic research, currently through elements (motive and material) collected from an ongoing immersion in BDSM. In this practice bondage-techniques become a form of ritualistic body-binding dubbed “Package play” where experiences of limitation and freedom are explored. These sessions are retold in Sjöberg’s works where materials that have been close to the body are woven into textile landscapes that also depict sensory words related to touch and intimacy, elements that are decidedly close to the living now.

ABOUT the gallery
Gallery Steinsland Berliner is a contemporary art gallery established in 2008 by Jeanette Steinsland and Jacob Kampp Berliner.

OPENING HOURS
Visit us during ongoing exhibitions:
Wed-Fri: 12—17
Sat: 12—16
or by appointment.
Office hours:
Tues-Fri: 10—17
The gallery is closed between shows and on public holidays. Please contact us if you wish to visit during these periods.
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