Algeria

I started to work with embroidery after ending my studies, photography in Stockholm and sculpture at the Art Academy in Oslo. I think it was about to find my own thinking on time and space. As an refuge in age of seven I have always felt a strange to the Scandinavian way of living at same time as now it very well and like to live in Norway. Still I have struggle to find visual expression that could contain the need of time to think. When I started with embroidery I did not know anything so I had to learn from women’s in special hobby shops for textile. But soon I learned that I could transport knowledge from classical drawing classes velour and contour drawing with thread instead of pencil. Also I could form visual space in my embroidery looking like a academic drawing. But later I understood that with textile I could express another form of space "real space" that you would normally not think of in an western painting except of Lucio Fontana.

Over years and especially during my PhD. project I felt I was able to express visually a form of real space combining both a western drawing tradition with a spatial textile. I could say that the works remind of reliefs but still not because it is not necessarily a factual space but an conceptual. I mean we know that textile is spatial this we experiences from childhood and up in our life. We could say that textile offer artists access to an conceptual space at same time as this space is real. So the next step have been for me to try out if it is possible to express abstract thinking with uses of textile/ embroidery. I hope this do not become to opaque. But well we know that there is an arm hidden inside a shirt we can see partly the shape outside on the textile so we read this as an arm or a body, so way should we not be able to read something else there. There is not an arm we see but a fabric looking partly as an arm or an body. This is one possible reading so way not something else, a particular form still a form who articulate something beyond identification of an real object still an inner object who gives us sense of belonging to the world.