What Now? Again!, the SLASK 2024 group show, opened on 27 November with works by seven artists across sculpture, jewellery, textile, video and painting.
Alexandra Moreno’s A Knot In Motion (discarded car tyres, epoxy, stainless steel, 2024) draws on posthumanist perspectives and Donna Haraway’s idea that the world is a knot in motion: in an intricately linked world, harming one part means harming yourself. The work, commissioned by Svensk Däckåtervinning, blurs the boundary between human and material and urges a new way of seeing our relation to the other, human and non-human.
Douglas Tillberg shows Berlocker (aluminium, found objects, 2024). His note for the works reads, in translation: I see something. I take my nail, push it straight through. That is my charm.
Amanda Edstrand’s Hysteria (aluminium, video, photography, 2024) traces a lineage: the seventeenth century witch becomes the hysteric of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, who today has become the twenty first century’s female borderline patient.
Rokko Bengts’ Seaside stroke simulation (cotton, polyester, linen, faux leather, 2023) is a snapshot of the archipelago seen through a disoriented lens.
Anna Harström shows a small group of stoneware sculptures (2022 to 2024): spirals and spikes, forms out of classical architecture and from everywhere in nature. Three legs never wobble; clay mixed with chalk becomes glaze; and objects can be charged with protective energies, if you believe in such things.
Natali Ringqvist presents Untitled (postcards, clay, tape, 2024) and Chausu painting (clay, tempera emulsion, linen canvas, 2024), alongside the coordinates 37°07’29.9”N 139°57’52.6”E.
In Main (silver, zircons, copper, 2024), Johanna Edwardh wants to challenge and preserve the craft at once. Experimenting with textile methods and stone setting, she conveys the conflict between the goldsmith’s slow, careful process and the fast production of our ultramodern world.
