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This sculpture is a self portrait made of recycled object and casted jesmonite with bronze filler. It is a part of the work Schyssta lökar (Nice onions); a mixed media installation in 43 parts. The installation was a part of my solo exhibition Löken blommar (The onion is blooming), at Alva Gallery, Umeå Sweden, 2022. About the exhibition: I bought a flower. And one more. And then I couldn’t stop. The use of the body in my work has sometimes been both mentally and physically stressful and the last year a need for playfulness has been emerging; to be able to use parts of my body in a way where they can be just parts of a puzzle without charges or values. In my praxis and in the body parts that I twist, turn, repeat and distort into new entities of their own, there is sometimes a longing for objectivity towards the subjective, and I wanted to make another attempt. I like to work with recycled materials since a long time, and previously mainly textiles. Nowadays I include other materials to a larger extent and for this exhibition I’ve used, in addition to textiles, found or second hand objects, as well as jesmonite castings of my body.
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Irina Laaja
Sweden
The complexity and signification of the body fascinates me; how something so concrete and straightforward, can also be so complicated and difficult. How views on, and definitions of, sexuality, normality and obscenity are woven in, between and through, our physique and our subconscious. Strange, uncanny places consisting of both pain and humor, exposing something insecure or uncomfortable yet unapologetic. My practice is both conceptual and confessional, connecting the personal and the political in a contemporary context. With great focus on the process and my own body, as well as the experiences that stem from it, I aim to approach the relationship between the "body" and “ourselves". Although the idea-based content usually helps to decide the medium, I do tend to return to textile, sculpture and drawing, often using techniques and methods otherwise associated with handicraft and Pattern Cutting.
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