Emilia Elfvik
Sculptural Embroidery 01, 2019
My work evolves around the curiosity for textile’s possibility to become. I search for simple principles in complex textile techniques, in order to re-process, re-invent and re-experience textile objects and processes.
Sculptural Embroidery 01 is part of an investigation of embroidery as form, through the development of the three-dimensional embroidery canvas. The work explores the perception of the material, as the sculpture is perceived differently depending on the time of the day, and the position of the viewer. As our bodies move around the work and the light shifts, our perception of the sculpture’s shape, volume, colour and surface change. Through this interplay between light, body, and space, I aim to create an experience that shows the complex, changing and expressive potential of textiles that puts me in such deep wonder.
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81x47x47cm | Nylon thread embroidery, screen print on cotton gauze, pva glue, reused pine, wall paint
